Jesse Newland

Capazon - Capistrano Meets Amazon EC2

UPDATE: For those looking for Capistrano 2.0 support, check out Capazon 0.2.0

Just a quick note to announce Capazon 0.1.0, a Capistrano extension library to manage Amazon EC2 instances. If you are familiar with Capistrano and have an Amazon EC2 account, give it a whirl:

gem install capazon
Edit your your config/deploy.rb:

* @$ cap describe_images@

  * executing task describe_images
IMAGE   ami-0386636a    rbuilder-online/nuxleus-1.3-x86_9327.img.manifest.xml   099034111737    available       true
IMAGE   ami-08866361    rbuilder-online/test1-1.0-x86_9326.img.manifest.xml     099034111737    available       true
IMAGE   ami-1281647b    rbuilder-online/mw-tour-1.6.8-x86_9458.img.manifest.xml 099034111737    available       true
IMAGE   ami-1681647f    rbuilder-online/mw-tour-1.6.8-x86_9459.img.manifest.xml 099034111737    available       true

$ AWS_AMI_ID=XXXX cap run_instance

This release just scratches the surface of what I hope to accomplish with Capazon – my end goal is to provide a shared AMI as a companion to Capazon which will encapsulate some Rails deployment best practices.

Please report any bugs you may come across, and stay tuned for updates!