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show me an easy way to push a rails application to aws (with docker) that uses RDS ? is there ANY way i can spin up a server, add the ssh keys to some configur

show me an easy way to push a rails application to aws (with docker) that uses RDS ? is there ANY way i can spin up a server, add the ssh keys to some configuration file somewhere and just "docker-magic push" and have my rails application running ? or do "docker-magic bundle exec db:migrate" and have that command run on the server. Or push a Procfile with worker definitions and have the PAAS automatically pick it up, add it to supervisord/systemd and run it ?

methyl 10y ago
https://github.com/dokku/dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku
imaffett 10y ago
Ive been looking for the same thing. Tried dokku and it was painfully slow. Tried rolling my own solution via git hooks but other devs had problems with execution. I would love to hear more about people running dokku on Digital Ocean (I was on a beefy azure server) In a very specific case, Heroku is the best solution for my problem. Sounds like it is for you too.
- sandGorgon 10y ago
  i would say for most use cases unless ROI becomes an issue. There is a point of time where it becomes cost effective to run your own S3.
jeremyjh 10y ago
Deis will do exactly that. http://deis.io/ http://deis.io/
- sandGorgon 10y ago
  hey - not bad. The documentation looks very similar to heroku.. i cant find if they do stuff to handle workers in Procfiles (which need to be added to the job manager like supervisord/systemd). But interesting..
nickjj 10y ago
Once you finish taking my Scaling Docker on AWS course, you'll have access to a magic command that deploys your app and you're free to optionally run migrations. http://nickjanetakis.com/courses/scaling-docker-on-aws http://nickjanetakis.com/courses/scaling-docker-on-aws It covers using RDS, ElastiCache and also handles load balancing your app + much more.
- goldenkey 10y ago
  You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless.
  - nickjj 10y ago
    > You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless. Yep, it costs $20. Basically the cost of chinese food for 2, to ensure guaranteed victory in learning the essentials of AWS' platform while having a guided tour on how to deploy a fault tolerant web app with Amazon ECS from start to finish. You can definitely learn everything for free, but the value in a course is that you're getting a cohesive learning path that was carefully planned and tested. You get a system that you can apply to your own projects and plenty of source code to reference. You're paying the $20 so you can avoid spending 6 months trying to figure out everything on your own while stringing together a bunch of half-assed blog posts and tutorials. You pay the small fee for certainty and it's well worth it because your time (and sanity) is not infinite.
    - goldenkey 10y ago
      I love the comparison to chinese food for 2. As if everyone lives in the US with the same economic situation. Your posts are truly despicable.
      - nickjj 10y ago
jacques_chester 10y ago
Cloud Foundry is probably what you want. To the point that the Ruby buildpack code is a soft fork of Heroku's (source: I work on the Cloud Foundry buildpacks team). It'll run on AWS, vSphere, OpenStack, Azure, GCP is coming and others to follow. There is, however, still a hump to get over in installation -- you need to learn what BOSH is, install BOSH, then install Cloud Foundry with BOSH. In the long run, for a production deployment, this is what you want. But it certainly doesn't feel that way when you just want to kick some damn tires. If you just want to tinker, you can try PCFDev[0]. It's a fully-functional Cloud Foundry installation in a single VM. Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering on Cloud Foundry. [0] https://pivotal.io/platform/pcf-tutorials/getting-started-with-pivotal-cloud-foundry-dev/introduction https://pivotal.io/platform/pcf-tutorials/getting-started-wi... Edit: yes, I know we ask you to signup during the PCFDev install. I hate it too. We have to for export compliance, it can't be avoided.
- sandGorgon 10y ago
  thanks for this ! how do you look at deis.io vs Cloud Foundry. Do you see yourself subscribing to one of the popular camps out there... or will you stick to Cloud Foundry in the long term ?
  - parasubvert 10y ago
    I'm also with Pivotal... CF is a long term deal. Deis is a young startup that began on Dokku before pivoting to K8S, CF is in its third generation runtime and its use of containers predates Docker to 2012. CF is already a relatively successful business with hundreds of million dollars in annual revenues across a pile of companies. Kubernetes and Docker are small in comparison as "businesses" but of course the momentum there is surging in terms of both pure open source adoption and contribution. It's likely going to be a big market with a lot of choice like Deis, or plain k8s, or RedHat OpenShift, or IBM bluemix, Pivotal , Docker Datacenter, or Mesos/Marathon, etc. It's a bit of a market war brewing and that competition will make for better solutions. What is great about open source vs. past tech "gold rushes" is that these experiments and feedback loops exist across communities that are otherwise competing and overlapping. Mesos adopted the Docker image format independently of the Docker runtime ; Kubernetes introduced pods independently but also reused parts of Docker. Docker container networking and volumes are being used compatibly in the latest incubated CF releases. RedHat submitted a way to get CF style buildpacks working on K8S. Someone found a way to make CF run on Mesos; I could see a similar attempt on Kubernetes some day. It's a confusing and busy time but also an explosion of activity. And even if there is competition for dollars in the end among all these players that will lead to tension , the work is out in the open mainly.

methyl 10y ago

https://github.com/dokku/dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku

imaffett 10y ago

Ive been looking for the same thing. Tried dokku and it was painfully slow. Tried rolling my own solution via git hooks but other devs had problems with execution. I would love to hear more about people running dokku on Digital Ocean (I was on a beefy azure server) In a very specific case, Heroku is the best solution for my problem. Sounds like it is for you too.

sandGorgon 10y ago
i would say for most use cases unless ROI becomes an issue. There is a point of time where it becomes cost effective to run your own S3.

jeremyjh 10y ago

Deis will do exactly that. http://deis.io/ http://deis.io/

sandGorgon 10y ago
hey - not bad. The documentation looks very similar to heroku.. i cant find if they do stuff to handle workers in Procfiles (which need to be added to the job manager like supervisord/systemd). But interesting..

nickjj 10y ago

Once you finish taking my Scaling Docker on AWS course, you'll have access to a magic command that deploys your app and you're free to optionally run migrations. http://nickjanetakis.com/courses/scaling-docker-on-aws http://nickjanetakis.com/courses/scaling-docker-on-aws It covers using RDS, ElastiCache and also handles load balancing your app + much more.

goldenkey 10y ago
You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless.
- nickjj 10y ago
  > You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless. Yep, it costs $20. Basically the cost of chinese food for 2, to ensure guaranteed victory in learning the essentials of AWS' platform while having a guided tour on how to deploy a fault tolerant web app with Amazon ECS from start to finish. You can definitely learn everything for free, but the value in a course is that you're getting a cohesive learning path that was carefully planned and tested. You get a system that you can apply to your own projects and plenty of source code to reference. You're paying the $20 so you can avoid spending 6 months trying to figure out everything on your own while stringing together a bunch of half-assed blog posts and tutorials. You pay the small fee for certainty and it's well worth it because your time (and sanity) is not infinite.
  - goldenkey 10y ago
    I love the comparison to chinese food for 2. As if everyone lives in the US with the same economic situation. Your posts are truly despicable.
    - nickjj 10y ago

jacques_chester 10y ago

Cloud Foundry is probably what you want. To the point that the Ruby buildpack code is a soft fork of Heroku's (source: I work on the Cloud Foundry buildpacks team). It'll run on AWS, vSphere, OpenStack, Azure, GCP is coming and others to follow. There is, however, still a hump to get over in installation -- you need to learn what BOSH is, install BOSH, then install Cloud Foundry with BOSH. In the long run, for a production deployment, this is what you want. But it certainly doesn't feel that way when you just want to kick some damn tires. If you just want to tinker, you can try PCFDev[0]. It's a fully-functional Cloud Foundry installation in a single VM. Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering on Cloud Foundry. [0] https://pivotal.io/platform/pcf-tutorials/getting-started-with-pivotal-cloud-foundry-dev/introduction https://pivotal.io/platform/pcf-tutorials/getting-started-wi... Edit: yes, I know we ask you to signup during the PCFDev install. I hate it too. We have to for export compliance, it can't be avoided.

sandGorgon 10y ago
thanks for this ! how do you look at deis.io vs Cloud Foundry. Do you see yourself subscribing to one of the popular camps out there... or will you stick to Cloud Foundry in the long term ?
- parasubvert 10y ago
  I'm also with Pivotal... CF is a long term deal. Deis is a young startup that began on Dokku before pivoting to K8S, CF is in its third generation runtime and its use of containers predates Docker to 2012. CF is already a relatively successful business with hundreds of million dollars in annual revenues across a pile of companies. Kubernetes and Docker are small in comparison as "businesses" but of course the momentum there is surging in terms of both pure open source adoption and contribution. It's likely going to be a big market with a lot of choice like Deis, or plain k8s, or RedHat OpenShift, or IBM bluemix, Pivotal , Docker Datacenter, or Mesos/Marathon, etc. It's a bit of a market war brewing and that competition will make for better solutions. What is great about open source vs. past tech "gold rushes" is that these experiments and feedback loops exist across communities that are otherwise competing and overlapping. Mesos adopted the Docker image format independently of the Docker runtime ; Kubernetes introduced pods independently but also reused parts of Docker. Docker container networking and volumes are being used compatibly in the latest incubated CF releases. RedHat submitted a way to get CF style buildpacks working on K8S. Someone found a way to make CF run on Mesos; I could see a similar attempt on Kubernetes some day. It's a confusing and busy time but also an explosion of activity. And even if there is competition for dollars in the end among all these players that will lead to tension , the work is out in the open mainly.