From Zero to fully deployed Rails app on EC2 with RightScale

by Robert Dempsey on September 27, 2007

Today I am a happy man. I went from having nothing, to having an EC2 AMI up and running, fully configured with Apache, MySQL, Mongrel, Rails, all required gems, and the latest version of a client’s Rails application, all in less than 15 minutes. This is all thanks to the tools provided by our partner, RightScale. Life is good, and that’s all I have to say about that.

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  • Adam,

    A great question. We are addressing those issues in this latest deploy with scripted backup of the database to S3 (a la cron), just in case things go wrong. This works great for staging and development servers. For a full scale deployment, however, we build in much more redundancy. We will load balance multiple front-ends and have a MySQL cluster of 2-3 database servers on the back end. So, a full scale deployment to EC2 would consist of 4-6 instances, plus scripted backup of the database to S3. Regardless, we can get that going in about an hour. Not to shabby for a 6 server deploy.
  • Adam
    How are you dealing with the database persistence issue? RightScale mentions a MySQL control panel on their site but I couldn't find any more detailed information about its architecture.
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