Capistrano::Autoscale
This plugin was written to ease the deployment of Rails applications to AWS AutoScale groups.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'capistrano-autoscale'
Add this statement to your Capfile:
require 'capistrano/autoscale
Configuration
Below are the Capistrano configuration options with their defaults (session_token is optional):
set :aws_access_key_id, ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID']
set :aws_secret_access_key, ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']
set :aws_session_token, ENV['AWS_SESSION_TOKEN']
set :aws_region, ENV['AWS_REGION']
And set the autoscale group using IP Address:
autoscale [<array of auto-scale-group-names>], :ip_address, user: '<deployment user>', roles: [<array of cap roles>]
Or, set the autoscale group using EC2 Instance Id:
autoscale [<array of auto-scale-group-names>], :instance_id, user: '<deployment user>', roles: [<array of cap roles>]