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 / host (Ubuntu please)
• Create yourself a user, add yourself to the /etc/sudoers file
• Set your slices url / ip address in deploy.rb (config/deploy.rb.example provided)
• Set username in config/deploy.rb if it isn't the same as your local machine (config/deploy.rb.example provided)

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

sprinkle -c -s config/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

My app isn't running

Read these tips to get you humming

Wait, what does all this install?

• Apache (Apt)
• Ruby Enterprise (Source) [includes rubygems]
• Passenger (Rubygem)
• Memcached (Apt)
• Libmemcached (Source)
• MySQL (Apt) or PostgreSQL (Apt)
• MySQL or PostgreSQL ruby database drivers (Rubygem)
• Git (Apt)

Requirements

• Ruby
• Capistrano
• Sprinkle (github.com/crafterm/sprinkle)
• An Ubuntu based VPS (known to not work on Debian Etch†)

Thanks

• Marcus Crafter and other Sprinkle contributors
• Slicehost, for giving a free slice for testing passenger stack
• Nathan de Vries for Postgres support

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.

Footnotes

† This issue lies between differences in apt between debian and ubuntu, my feedback has been forwarded and discussed with Marcus, the author of sprinkle. I believe he is looking into it.