ION-Roller: AWS Immutable Deployment framework for web services

ION-Roller is a service (API, web app and CLI tool) that leverages Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk and underlying CloudFormation framework capabilities to deploy Docker images to EC2 instances.

Features

• Automated resource management
• Safe immutable deployments
• Do healthchecks, move traffic to new deployment
• Phased rollout
• Provides fast rollback (old version still deployed)
• Visibility
  • All releases/rollbacks/changes to envs are logged
  • Current state visible to everybody on team
• Independent of language & dev environment (Docker!)
• Deployment configuration management (and history tracking)
• ‘Testing in production’ easy to implement

ionroller release my-service 0.0.1

Check out the demo!

For a more thorough explanation of motivation and the concepts behind ION-Roller check [InfoQ article] (http://www.infoq.com/articles/gilt-deploying-microservices-aws).

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• [Getting Started] (docs/gettingStarted.md)
• Setting up ION-Roller
• [Deploying services] (docs/deployingServices.md)
• [Traffic redirection] (docs/trafficRedirection.md)
• Troubleshooting
• Development
• REST API - Apidoc