Mobilize

Mobilize allows you to create job schedules in Google Spreadsheets, which are then used to deploy code from Github to EC2 instances. The outputs from these scripts can be written to any endpoint, but this API will prioritize access to RDS, Google Spreadsheets, Google Files, and S3.

• Mobilize currently allows you to create a cluster of resque workers running Mobilize through EC2 with a redis connection through Elasticache.
• This will soon support running scheduled code deployments and data transfers scalably and asynchronously.

Configuration files

• create a ~/.mobilize directory
• create a subdirectory ~/.mobilize/config.
  • copy mobrc into ~/.mobilize/config/mobrc.
    • this file contains super secret usernames and passwords for all your services.
• create a subdirectory ~/.mobilize/keys
  • use ssh-keygen to create two keypairs called box.ssh and git.ssh
    • store these keys under ~/.mobilize/keys
    • you will use these keys to interact with github and ec2.

Credentials

You'll need to sign up for:

• AWS
  • Add your access key id and secret access key to mobrc
  • EC2
    • set up a keypair named "mobilize", using the public key box.ssh.pub
    • Add inbound TCP access to HTTP (port 80) for the default security group.
  • Elasticache
    • set up an instance of Redis elasticache in the default security group.
    • add the host and port for your Redis box to mobrc
    • add your chosen Resque username and password to mobrc
      • this will be set up during installation.
• Google Drive
  • add your email and password to mobrc
• Github
  • add your login (owner name) and password to mobrc
    • add your git.ssh.pub key to github as a public key.
• Mongolab
  • create a database named mobilize-test, with your chosen username and password.
  • add your host:port, username, and password to mobrc

Installation, Logging, Monitoring

• install RVM and Ruby 1.9.3 with:

  • \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby=1.9.3

• install git with sudo apt-get install git or brew install git depending on your system

• install mobilize with:

  • git clone https://github.com/mobilize/mobilize.git && cd mobilize && rake install
  • This will copy default configs to ~/.mobilize/config/config.yml

• tail application logs with:

  • mob log tail

• install your cluster:

  • mob cluster install

• start your cluster (5 engines with 5 Resque workers each by default):

  • mob cluster start

• monitor your workers

  • mob cluster view

• terminate your cluster (5 engines with 5 Resque workers each):

  • mob cluster terminate

Console

• launch the Mobilize console with:
  • mob console
    • This will load all settings and allow you to browse the test environment in pry.