I gave a presentation about using rubber to deploy rails apps to ec2 to the Boston Ruby Group on Tuesday July 8th, 2008. I’m not quite sure how good my speaking skills are, but it seemed to go well. See the slides on slideshare.
In Portland, Oregon all this weekend for RailsConf 2008, any like-minded readers interested in chatting over a beer?I gave a lightning talk on rubber today, if anyone wangts a more detailed demo, seek me out (twitter: mattconway).
One of the drawbacks of EC2 is that there are no static IPs to be had, so short of using an external (to ec2) solution, the only way to have redundant load balancers is to use dns round robin. If a load balancer instance goes down, we should ideally remove it from the round robin so that clients don’t continue to use the dead IP.
I’ve created yet another system for deploying rails apps to ec2 using capistrano. None of the others were doing it for me, primarily because I needed a way to deploy/configure/scale-up to multiple instances as needed.
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