Capistrano::Getservers

capistrano-getservers makes it easier for you to deploy to your EC2 or Rackspace Cloud instances. By supplying a Hash or Array, respectively, to the get_servers method, capistrano-getservers connects to the appropriate service and retrieves all instances with matching criteria.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-getservers'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-getservers

Requirements

Ruby Gems

• gem 'capistrano'
• gem 'fog'

Environment variables (AWS EC2)

• export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=''
• export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=''

Environment variables (Rackspace)

• export RACKSPACE_API_KEY=''
• export RACKSPACE_USERNAME=''

Usage

Retrieving instances within Capistrano

AWS EC2

In your capistrano script:

get_servers(:db, 'us-east-1', {'app' => 'app_name', 'cluster' => 'cluster', 'environment' => 'environment' ... })

Rackspace Cloud Servers

In your capistrano script:

get_servers(:app, :ord, ['server1','server2','server3'])

Retrieving instances from your CLI

First, add support for CLI arguments. I haven't personally tested using both AWS and Rackspace at the same time, but if you need to, it should work just fine, really.

AWS EC2

In your capistrano script:

set :tags, ENV['TAGS'] || {}
cli_tags = parse(tags)
get_servers(:role, region, cli_tags)

Rackspace

set :names, ENV['NAMES'].split(',') || []
get_servers(:role, region, names)

Then, pass your tags/instance names via the command line:

AWS

$ cap staging deploy TAGS=key1:value1,key2:value2,key3:value3...

Rackspace

$ cap staging deploy NAMES=web001,awesomeserver,blah...

Instances behind Amazon's VPC or that require a proxy

If you have instances located in a VPC with no public IP address, capistrano-getservers will return their private ip address. You will then need to use capistrano's gateway support to deploy to these machines.

The following line of code accomplishes just that:

set :gateway, "gateway_address"

Notes

You can pass nil as the second parameter to have capistrano-getservers default to the us-east-1 region for Amazon EC2 or dfw for Rackspace Cloud servers.

All servers will receive the role 'web' unless you specify a different role using the get_servers method.

Example: get_servers(:role, 'us-east-1', {'deploy' => 'some value', 'app' => 'some_value'})

Example: get_servers(:role, :ord, ['web001','dbserver'])

Changelog

Version 2.0.0:

• Added support for Rackspace Cloud Servers

Version 1.0.3:

• get_servers now returns private instance ip addresses if no public address is available. See VPC notes above for more info.

Version 1.0.2:

• Added region support for Getservers. Had to change the function get_servers for this, so it's now: get_servers(:role,'region',tags)

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request