Deploying Rails (For Greg Kennedy) by Burns, Anthony -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Deploying Rails Table of Contents What Readers Are Saying About Deploying Rails Preface

Who Should Read This Book? What Is in the Book? How to Read This Book Tools and Online Resources

Acknowledgments

Anthony Burns Tom Copeland

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Where Do We Host Our Rails Application? 1.2 Building Effective Teams with DevOps 1.3 Learning with MassiveApp

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Vagrant

2.1 Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant 2.2 Configuring Networks and Multiple Virtual Machines 2.3 Running Multiple VMs 2.4 Where to Go Next 2.5 Conclusion 2.6 For Future Reference

Chapter 3: Rails on Puppet

3.1 Understanding Puppet 3.2 Setting Up Puppet 3.3 Installing Apache with Puppet 3.4 Configuring MySQL with Puppet 3.5 Creating the MassiveApp Rails Directory Tree 3.6 Writing a Passenger Module 3.7 Managing Multiple Hosts with Puppet 3.8 Updating the Base Box 3.9 Where to Go Next 3.10 Conclusion 3.11 For Future Reference

Chapter 4: Basic Capistrano

4.1 Setting Up Capistrano 4.2 Making It Work 4.3 Setting Up the Deploy 4.4 Pushing a Release 4.5 Exploring Roles, Tasks, and Hooks 4.6 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Advanced Capistrano

5.1 Deploying Faster by Creating Symlinks in Bulk 5.2 Uploading and Downloading Files 5.3 Restricting Tasks with Roles 5.4 Deploying to Multiple Environments with Multistage 5.5 Capturing and Streaming Remote Command Output 5.6 Running Commands with the Capistrano Shell 5.7 Conclusion

Chapter 6: Monitoring with Nagios

6.1 A MassiveApp to Monitor 6.2 Writing a Nagios Puppet Module 6.3 Monitoring Concepts in Nagios 6.4 Monitoring Local Resources 6.5 Monitoring Services 6.6 Monitoring Applications 6.7 Where to Go Next 6.8 Conclusion 6.9 For Future Reference

Chapter 7: Collecting Metrics with Ganglia

7.1 Setting Up a Metrics VM 7.2 Writing a Ganglia Puppet Module 7.3 Using Ganglia Plugins 7.4 Gathering Metrics with a Custom Gmetric Plugin 7.5 Producing Metrics with Ruby 7.6 Where to Go Next 7.7 Conclusion 7.8 For Future Reference

Chapter 8: Maintaining the Application

8.1 Managing Logs 8.2 Archiving Application Data 8.3 Organizing Backups and Configuring MySQL Failover 8.4 Making Downtime Better

Chapter 9: Running Rubies with RVM

9.1 Installing RVM 9.2 Serving Applications with Passenger Standalone 9.3 Using Systemwide RVM 9.4 Watching Passenger Standalone with Monit 9.5 Contrasting Gemsets and Bundler 9.6 Conclusion

Chapter 10: Special Topics

10.1 Managing Crontab with Whenever 10.2 Backing Up Everything 10.3 Using Ruby Enterprise Edition 10.4 Securing sshd 10.5 Conclusion

Appendix 1: A Capistrano Case Study

A1.1 Requires and Variables A1.2 Hooks and Tasks

Appendix 2: Running on Unicorn and nginx

A2.1 Installing and Configuring nginx A2.2 Running MassiveApp on Unicorn A2.3 Deploying to nginx and Unicorn A2.4 Where to Go Next

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