== EC2Manage Page 

This is bunch of capistrano scripts and configuration files that were
intended to used in conjunction with ec2onrails gem. 

Note: Elements can be extracted and integrated into ec2onrails or other 
systems but it is NOT production ready and is not community supported. 
That is, you are on your own. We intended to extend ec2onrails but never 
got to that. 

We decided to reimplement the system using poolparty/chef. So
opensourcing the code for others to look at and use. We have 
benefited much from working with ec2onrails.

== Contents 

ec2onrails gem provided the basic functionality. This code has a few
additional things: 

Capistrano commands: 

# Refactored EBS setup code from ec2onrails with different behavior
  when mounted first time, and mounted again after crash. (lib/recipes/ec2onrails.rb) 
# Dynamic dns update after configuration (lib/recipes/dns.rb)
# Initial application deployment (lib/recipes/app.rb)
# DB helper functions (lib/recipes/db.rb) 
# AMI bundling after a configuration (lib/recipes/ami.rb) 
# Simple performance testing (lib/recipes/perf.rb) 
# Splunk/zmanda custom installation and helpers (lib/recipes/server.rb)
# Synchoronization of host directories with EBS (lib/recipes/files.rb) 
# Other helper functions (lib/recipes/deploy.rb) 


Configuration files and scripts:

Emergency communication: 

# Emergency email sender (server/files/usr/local/bin/emergency_mail_sender.rb)
# Post twitter messages from EC2 (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/bin/ec2manage_twitter.rb)

AMI management:

# Script to rebundle the deployed image (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/bin/rebundle.sh)

Backup management: 

# Script to copy zrm full and incremental backups to S3 (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/bin/ec2manage_backup_zrm.rb)
# Script to run ZRM backup manager with a specific backup set at
  specified time. Intended to be called from cron
  (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/bin/ec2manage_zrm_scheduler.rb)
# Script to automount EBS volume if the specification passed in the user-data *UNTESTED* (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/bin/automount-ebs.rb)
# Script to restore from the database *UNTESTED* (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/bin/ec2manage_restore_db.rb)
# Script to generate EBS snapshots (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/bin/ec2manage_backup_snapshots.rb)


Helpers 
# Restart the application (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/bin/reload_app.sh)
# God default configuration (server/files/usr/local/ec2onrails/lib/god_helper.rb)

Configuration files: 
# Splunk (server/files/etc/ec2manage/splunk)
# Emergency mail configuration (server/files/etc/ec2manage/ec2manage-mail.conf)
# Twitter configuration (server/files/etc/ec2manage/ec2manage-twitter.conf)
# Backup configuration (server/files/etc/ec2manage/ec2manage-zrm.conf) 
# ZRM configuration (server/files/etc/mysql-zrm/)
# God configuration to keep the applications up and running (server/files/etc/god/)
# Munin setup for graphing the status (server/files/etc/munin/)
# Cron jobs for mail server status, log rotation, backup, and application-specific scripts. 
(server/files/etc/cron.[hourly|daily|weekly|monthly]; server/files/etc/cron.d/ec2onrails)
# Rightscale mirror for debian (server/files/etc/apt/sources.list)
# Postfix mailserver configuration (tested with AuthSMTP) (server/files/etc/postfix/main.cf) 
# Apache configuration for hosting two application - needs more testing - (server/files/etc/apache2)

Sample capistrano settings: 

# S3 Backup settings (config/s3.yml.sample)
# Settings used to specify the user and location for the AMI bundles (config/bundle.yml.sample)
# Data that is expected to passed through the instance-specific user-data (config/user-data.yml.example)
# Files that must be synchronized between the host and the EBS (config/files.yml.sample)
# Dynamic DNS settings (config/dns.yml.sample)