rigger

Deployments with a DSL that resembles capistrano/vlad's, but way simpler, and things like rolling restarts are possible. For about 6 months, we've been using rigger to deploy fetlife.com and related services dozens of times per day.

gem install rigger

config

Edit config/rig.rb

set :current_path, "/var/www/yr_app_home"
server :app, "app@server"
server :db, "db@server"

dsl

see rigger/recipes for examples

role = @current_servers.first.role
conf = get(:chef_config).merge(:role => role,
                               :run_list => "role[#{role}]").to_json
run "mkdir -p #{get(:release_path)}/config"
chef_config =<<-_END_
  cookbook_path    ["/var/chef/cookbooks",
                    "#{get(:release_path)}/cookbooks"]
  log_level         :info
  file_cache_path  "/var/chef"
  role_path        "#{get(:release_path)}/roles"
  Chef::Log::Formatter.show_time = false
_END_
put chef_config, get(:release_path) + "/config/chef-solo.rb"
put conf, get(:release_path) + "/config/chef.json"

wanted

• specs
• docs

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 James Golick. See LICENSE.txt for further details.