Passenger stack, zero to hero in under five minutes

Scripts for Sprinkle, the provisioning tool

How to get your sprinkle on:

• Get a brand spanking new slice (ubuntu please)
• Create yourself a user, add yourself to the sudoers file
• Apt-get update
• Set your slices url / ip address in deploy.rb (deploy.rb.example provided)

From your local system (from the passenger-stack directory), run:

sprinkle -c -s install.rb

After you've waited for everything to run, you should have a provisioned slice. Go forth and install your custom configurations, add vhosts and other VPS paraphernalia.

Other things you should probably consider:

• Close everything except for port 80 and 22
• Disallow password logins and use a passphrased RSA key

Wait, what does it install?

• Apache (Apt)
• Ruby enterprise (Source) [includes rubygems]
• Passenger (Rubygem)
• Libmemcached (Source)
• MySQL (Apt)
• Git (Apt)

Requirements

• Ruby
• Capistrano
• Sprinkle (github.com/crafterm/sprinkle)
• An Ubuntu based VPS (known to not work on Debian Etch, haven't looked into why)

Thanks

Marcus Crafter and other Sprinkle contributors

Disclaimer

Don't run this on a system that has already been deemed "in production", its not malicious, but theres a fair chance that you'll ass something up monumentally. You have been warned.