mcmegavolt / ansible-rails_deploy

Deploy Rails applications using Ansible and DebOps

rails_deploy

debops.rails_deploy role allows you to easily setup infrastructure capable of running Rails applications. It removes all of the headaches associated to setting up a secure Rails app that is ready for production so you can concentrate on developing your app.

High level goals

• Setup an entire rails app server with 1 line of configuration with sane defaults
• Optionally and easily separate your app servers, database and worker into multiple servers
• Quickly and easily switch between popular default databases and backend servers
• Be as secure as possible and adhere to as many best practices as possible

Backups and logging

• Postgresql runs a daily backup with daily/weekly rotation
• Both your backend server and background worker get logged to 1 logrotated file
• The rails process gets sent to syslog.user

System level minutia

• User accounts, permissions and ssh keys are automatically managed
• Paths such as logs, pids and sockets are automatically managed

Deploy features

• Automatically set deploy keys to github/gitlab with 1 line of configuration
  • This leverages their API, all you have to do is supply their token
• Keep track of your schema file and config folder's mtime in local facts
  • This allows the deploy task to attempt to guess if your server needs a full restart or a quick reload
• Only run database commands from a single master app server
  • This master is defined by simply being first in the group list
• Various options to turn certain features on/off
  • A few examples would be database creation, migration and force restarting your server
• Add custom services which get restarted/reloaded at the end of the deploy cycle
  • If you have a SOA setup this could be handy
• Add and remove custom tasks at various points in the deploy
  • By default it is set to precompile assets and clear the /tmp cache
• Optionally swap a static deploy page in/out during the deploy cycle

Security

• Secure passwords are managed automatically for your database
• Ports are blocked and only whitelisted for IP addresses/masks that you specify
• SSL is enabled by default but can be turned off if you really don't want it
• Self signed SSL certs are automatically managed for you
  • Changing to properly signed certificates is a breeze

Installation

This role requires at least Ansible v1.7.0. To install it, run:

ansible-galaxy install debops.rails_deploy

Documentation

More information about debops.rails_deploy can be found in the official debops.rails_deploy documentation.

Role dependencies

• debops.etc_services
• debops.redis
• debops.nginx
• debops.nodejs
• debops.mysql
• debops.ruby
• debops.monit
• debops.secret
• debops.postgresql

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Authors and license

rails_deploy role was written by:

• Nick Janetakis | e-mail | Twitter | GitHub

License: GPLv3

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This role is part of the DebOps project. README generated by ansigenome.