Description

Somewhat similar to the Opscode deploy resource, but rather than hooking up to a source code repository, it downloads complete build packages from a specific Amazon S3 bucket.
The cookbook itself doesn't do much, besides providing an "s3_deploy" resource that takes care of the above.

Requirements

Needs the "s3cmd" cookbook to work. Tested on Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04, but it should work on any platform that supports symlinks.

Attributes

['deploy_s3']['bucket'] = The name of the bucket containing the releases
['deploy_s3']['deploy_root'] = The location where the app will be deployed on disk - defaults to "/home/web"

Usage

Best to explain by example:

Let's assume we have an application called "myapp", and we want to deploy the build "v1.2" on our server.
We set the "bucket" attribute to "app-releases", and leave "deploy_root" as the default.

First, we need to store the build in the "app-releases" S3 bucket. The build should be a single folder named after the release name ("v1.2" in our case), which is then compressed with Tar/Gz. So for our example, the package would be "v1.2.tar.gz" which contains the folder "v1.2".

This folder is then uploaded into S3, inside a folder named after the app: "myapp/v1.2.tar.gz"

Then we'd put the following in our recipe

deploy_s3 "myapp" do
    build "v1.2"
    action :create
end

and the resource will do the following:

1. Create the folder "/home/web/myapp" if it's not already there
2. Create the folder "/home/web/myapp/releases" if it's not already there
3. Attempt to download the object "myapp/v1.2.tar.gz" from the "app-releases" bucket, into "/home/web/myapp/releases"
4. Unzip the package
5. Symlink the package to "/home/web/latest"

Development

Please refer to the Readme here

License and Author

Author:: Adam Borocz (on GitHub)

Copyright:: 2013, HipSnip Ltd.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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