Introduction

This chef cookbook setups an example rails app using the AWS RDS cookbook

Requirements

• Git
• Chef 11.4+
• Ruby 1.9.3+
• AWS Credentials

Non-Gem Dependencies

• Vagrant 1.3.5+
• vagrant-aws 1.3.4: Install using: vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws
• vagrant-env 0.0.2: Install using vagrant plugin install vagrant-env
• vagrant-berkshelf 1.3.4: Install using vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf

Usage

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/gosuri/rails-app-cookbook.git
   cd rails-app-cookbook
   

2. Create the web EC2 security groups

   Create a security group called web and open 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP) ports. It should be available at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#s=SecurityGroups

   It'll look something like in the image below

3. Add web EC2 security to default RDS security group

   In order to make the rds instance available to the ec2 instance, you will need to add the web ec2 security group to default rds security group. It should be available at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/home?region=us-east-1#securitygroup:ids=default

   It'll look something like this:

4. Place AWS credentials in .env file

   Place .env that contains your AWS credentials under .env. You can use the sample .env.sample to get started

   cat > .env <<ENV
   export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX
   export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX
   export AWS_KEYPAIR_NAME=xxx
   ENV
   

5. Install gem dependencies

   First you'll need bundler which can be installed with a simple gem install bundler. Afterwords, do the following:

   bundle install
   

6. Provision an AWS instance

   source .env && vagrant up --provider=aws
   

   If the provisioning fails you can restart it using vagrant provision

7. Point your browser to the newly created ec2 instanstance and you should see 'It works!'

Recipes

• default.rb: The default recipe creates an rds instance and setups the rails app with unicorn and nginx

Contributing

1. Fork the project on github
2. Commit your changes to your fork
3. Send a pull request

License & Author

Author:: Greg Osuri (gosuri@gmail.com)

Copyright (c) 2014 Greg Osuri

Licensed under the MIT License

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