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Deploying Ruby Applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Git

• wanghq 14y ago
  Glad to see the free service and a dedicated ruby blog. I successfully deployed one of my apps to AWS via Elastic Beanstalk with no issue, while previously I used Rubber to manage my deployments. I think I like beanstalk because of its zero-cost and simplicity. Though I haven't figured out how to use private gem.
• pat2man 14y ago
  I'm loving Ruby support in Elastic Beanstalk so far. My biggest complaint is that there isn't really a way to launch worker processes like resque or delayed_job. A separate autoscaling group that can run a rake task would be nice. Support for a Heroku style Procfile would be especially nice.
  • thetron 14y ago
    You could probably use 'container commands' to start/stop worker processes after each deployment. I'm only reading the Elastic Beanstalk docs for the first time, so I haven't tried it myself - but it looks like it could be the right solution: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customize-containers.html http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg...
    • pat2man 14y ago
      True, but it would be nice to have separate instances for workers vs app servers.
      • thetron 14y ago
        Oh absolutely. As you said, procfile (or similar) support would be amazing.
• sergiotapia 14y ago
  For MVC3 apps how does this compare to appharbor?
  • friism 14y ago
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk doesn't really support Git push of source code for compiled languages like .NET and Java. Details here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=343686 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=343686
    • sergiotapia 14y ago
      That seems like a feature that I would really miss. Too bad.