Hello chefs:
Ive been using chef for some time but have yet to use the application cookbook and the deployment resource. Most of the applications i work with are ruby on rails. Traditionally capistrano is the deployment tool of choice but it seems that if you already use chef for managing infrastructure, the ‘application’ cookbook would be good to have in the toolbox.
Im currently working on a project where we use capistrano and the opscode platform. We are starting to cross the boundaries between typical development activities and actions that could benefit from some of the chef ‘intelligence’. Are there many rails apps that use application and chef-deploy to replace capistrano? (i believe you need both resources?)
thanks for any insight
Ryan
We have chef-client running every 30 minutes. But sometimes deployment need
to be executed earlier then in 30 minutes. So we use chef/capistrano
deployment.
basically cap deploy:setup and some configuration which depends on the
infrastructure (database, redis etc.) are deployed and managed by chef. The
code itself is deployed from git repo by capistrano. There is a deployer
host which holds all the projects and user who is able to run cap deploy
form there in order to deploy to prod env (regular developers do not have
access to prod).
There is a monitor running which checks repo changes or CI successful
builds every minute and triggers deployment job as soon as one of those
changes happens.
--max
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Ryan Richards abstractryan@gmail.comwrote:
Hello chefs:
Ive been using chef for some time but have yet to use the application
cookbook and the deployment resource. Most of the applications i work with
are ruby on rails. Traditionally capistrano is the deployment tool of
choice but it seems that if you already use chef for managing
infrastructure, the 'application' cookbook would be good to have in the
toolbox.
Im currently working on a project where we use capistrano and the opscode
platform. We are starting to cross the boundaries between typical
development activities and actions that could benefit from some of the chef
'intelligence'. Are there many rails apps that use application and
chef-deploy to replace capistrano? (i believe you need both resources?)
thanks for any insight
Ryan
i have worked on several rails project , and used chef deploy resource for
deployment and mcollective to do realtime orchestration
On Feb 13, 2012 11:14 PM, "Max Gorbul" max@gorbul.net wrote:
We have chef-client running every 30 minutes. But sometimes deployment
need to be executed earlier then in 30 minutes. So we use chef/capistrano
deployment.
basically cap deploy:setup and some configuration which depends on the
infrastructure (database, redis etc.) are deployed and managed by chef. The
code itself is deployed from git repo by capistrano. There is a deployer
host which holds all the projects and user who is able to run cap deploy
form there in order to deploy to prod env (regular developers do not have
access to prod).
There is a monitor running which checks repo changes or CI successful
builds every minute and triggers deployment job as soon as one of those
changes happens.
--max
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Ryan Richards abstractryan@gmail.comwrote:
Hello chefs:
Ive been using chef for some time but have yet to use the application
cookbook and the deployment resource. Most of the applications i work with
are ruby on rails. Traditionally capistrano is the deployment tool of
choice but it seems that if you already use chef for managing
infrastructure, the 'application' cookbook would be good to have in the
toolbox.
Im currently working on a project where we use capistrano and the opscode
platform. We are starting to cross the boundaries between typical
development activities and actions that could benefit from some of the chef
'intelligence'. Are there many rails apps that use application and
chef-deploy to replace capistrano? (i believe you need both resources?)
thanks for any insight
Ryan