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Moonshine
190 Proof Deployment
Jarin Udom, Robot Mode LLC
http://robotmo.de

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Introduction

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Deployment Sucks!
Install Ubuntu
Update packages
Configure SSH
Configure iptables
Build and install Apache, MySQL/Postgres, Ruby Enterprise Edition,
RubyGems, Passenger, ImageMagick, PostFix, Cron, logrotate, NTP, Rails, gems, git, etc. etc.…
Finally deploy!

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What Moonshine does
Update packages
Configure SSH
Configure iptables
Build and install Apache, MySQL/Postgres, Ruby Enterprise Edition,
RubyGems, Passenger, ImageMagick, PostFix, cron, logrotate, NTP, Rails, gems, git, etc. etc.…
Deploy!
Manage!
…and more!

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What Moonshine is built on
Made by Rails Machine
Puppet
ShadowPuppet (extracted from Moonshine)
Capistrano

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Moonshine Plugins
ar_mailer
Local and Amazon S3 backups
god
iptables
memcached
sphinx
ssh
Wordpress (?!)

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Getting Started

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What you need
A server running Ubuntu 8.10
A user on the server who can sudo and
access your Git repository
A beer (optional)

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Install Plugins
script/plugin install git://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine.git
script/plugin install git://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine_ssh.git
script/plugin install git://github.com/railsmachine/
moonshine_iptables.git
Install any other Moonshine plugins you want
script/generate moonshine
Generates config/moonshine.yml and app/manifests/

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Gems
Make sure all of your gems are declared in environment.rb
rake moonshine:gems
Generates gems.yml
You need to do this any time you add/remove/change the gems

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Edit moonshine.yml
:ruby: ree
:application: ultranetweb
:user: rails
:time_zone: UTC
:deploy_to: /srv/ultranetweb
:domain: ultranetweb.com
:domain_aliases:
- www.ultranetweb.com
- assets1.ultranetweb.com
# The entries in shared_children are created in #{application}/shared
:shared_children:
- system
- log
- pids
- config
:repository: git@github.com:robotmode/ultranetweb.git

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Edit moonshine.yml
:local_config:
- config/database.yml
:ssh
:port: 9022
:allow_users:
- jarin
- rails
:apt_gems:
:paperclip:
- imagemagick
:passenger:
:max_pool_size: 3
:use_global_queue: true
:mysql:
:innodb_buffer_pool_size: 128M

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Edit application_manifest.rb
Located in app/manifests/
# Installs Rails, Apache, Passenger, the database from database.yml, Postfix,
# Cron, logrotate and NTP.
recipe :default_stack
plugin :ssh
recipe :ssh
plugin :iptables
recipe :iptables

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Edit application_manifest.rb
Located in app/manifests/
def application_packages
send_weekly_emails = "/usr/bin/rake -f #{configuration[:deploy_to]}/
current/Rakefile mailer:send_weekly_emails RAILS_ENV=#{ENV['RAILS_ENV']}"
cron 'notifications:send_weekly_emails',
:command => send_weekly_emails,
:user => configuration[:user],
:minute => 0,
:hour => 3,
:weekday => 1
# Only run the following on the 'staging' stage using capistrano-ext.
on_stage 'staging' do
file '/etc/motd', :ensure => :file, :content => "!!! STAGING SERVER !!!"
end
end

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Capify and go!
capify .
config/deploy.rb:
server "ultranetweb.com", :app, :web, :db, :primary =>
true
Add to git
git add . && git commit -am "added moonshine" && git
push
Bootstrap!
cap
deploy:setup
Deploy!
cap
deploy

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Now, cap deploy will…
Verify your system config on each deploy
Run migrations
Install gems
…and their system dependencies!
Pull down submodules
Keep your system configuration in
version control!

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But what about other servers?
You can have per-server manifests for your app servers, database
servers, memcache, etc.
set :moonshine_manifest, 'memcached_manifest'
By default, Moonshine sets your database auto-increment to 10 to
allow for easier database sharding later
Check the Moonshine Google Group for more info

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Resources
Source/wiki: http://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine
Docs: http://railsmachine.github.com/moonshine/
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/railsmachine-
moonshine
Slides will be up at http://jarinheit.com in the next couple of days

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Questions?