UPDATE: For those looking for Capistrano 2.0 support, check out Capazon 0.2.0
Just a quick note to announce Capazon 0.1.0, a Capistrano extension library to manage Amazon EC2 instances. If you are familiar with Capistrano and have an Amazon EC2 account, give it a whirl:
gem install capazon- Edit your your
config/deploy.rb:
require 'capazon'
#AWS login info
set :aws_access_key_id, 'XXX'
set :aws_secret_access_key, 'X'
# Name of the keypair used to spawn and connect to the Amazon EC2 Instance
# Defaults to one created by the setup_keypair task
set :aws_keypair_name, "#{application}-capazon"
# Path to the private key for the Amazon EC2 Instance mentioned above
# Detaults to one created by setup_keypair task
set :aws_private_key_path, "#{Dir.pwd}/#{aws_keypair_name}-key"
#defaults to an ubuntu image
#set :aws_ami_id, "ami-e4b6538d"
#defaults to, um, default
#set :aws_security_group, "default"$ cap describe_images
* executing task describe_images
IMAGE ami-0386636a rbuilder-online/nuxleus-1.3-x86_9327.img.manifest.xml 099034111737 available true
IMAGE ami-08866361 rbuilder-online/test1-1.0-x86_9326.img.manifest.xml 099034111737 available true
IMAGE ami-1281647b rbuilder-online/mw-tour-1.6.8-x86_9458.img.manifest.xml 099034111737 available true
IMAGE ami-1681647f rbuilder-online/mw-tour-1.6.8-x86_9459.img.manifest.xml 099034111737 available true$ AWS_AMI_ID=XXXX cap run_instance
This release just scratches the surface of what I hope to accomplish with Capazon – my end goal is to provide a shared AMI as a companion to Capazon which will encapsulate some Rails deployment best practices.
Please report any bugs you may come across, and stay tuned for updates!
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Very cool. Question, how are you handling dns when you deploy your app? Also, database persistence? :)
For DNS, I’ve simply created a CNAME for soylentfoo.jnewland.com pointing to the amazon hostname for the instance it’s running on.
For database persistance – I’m currently backing up the DB every hour to s3. s3infinidisk shows some real promise, however.
Great stuff! What about bundling images, registering them with ec2 and uploading them to s3?
http://niblets.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/capistrano-ec2-sitting-in-a-tree-k-i-s-s-i-n-g/
I’ve install amazon-ec2 gem, installed capazon gem, have ruby 1.8.5, but when I try this example I got an error in /capazon-0.1.1/lib/capazon/capistrano_plugin.rb
no such file to load—ec2 (LoadError)
It seems that the most recent amazon-ec2 gem uses EC2.rb, not ec2.rb
Hey, TJ – Thanks for reporting that. I’ll take a look and fix it ASAP.