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From Zero to fully deployed Rails app on EC2 with RightScale
By: Robert Dempsey | Tags:Today I am a happy man. I went from having nothing, to having an EC2 AMI up and running, fully configured with Apache, MySQL, Mongrel, Rails, all required gems, and the latest version of a client’s Rails application, all in less than 15 minutes. This is all thanks to the tools provided by our partner, RightScale. Life is good, and that’s all I have to say about that.
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5 Responses to “From Zero to fully deployed Rails app on EC2 with RightScale”
On September 28th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Adam said:
How are you dealing with the database persistence issue? RightScale mentions a MySQL control panel on their site but I couldn’t find any more detailed information about its architecture.
On September 28th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Robert Dempsey said:
Adam,
A great question. We are addressing those issues in this latest deploy with scripted backup of the database to S3 (a la cron), just in case things go wrong. This works great for staging and development servers. For a full scale deployment, however, we build in much more redundancy. We will load balance multiple front-ends and have a MySQL cluster of 2-3 database servers on the back end. So, a full scale deployment to EC2 would consist of 4-6 instances, plus scripted backup of the database to S3. Regardless, we can get that going in about an hour. Not to shabby for a 6 server deploy.
On September 28th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Anonymous said:
From Zero to fully deployed Rails app on EC2 with RightScale…
There are many Ruby gems allowing Ruby and Rails developers to interact with EC2 and S3. With RightScale, you are able to go from nothing to a fully running server (complete with our app) in 15 minutes or less….
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