Cloud 66
Introduction
Cloud 66 is a DevOps-as-a-Service for Rails, Node, and Docker. The instructions below focus on Rails; Node apps will have a similar setup, but may require some adjustment.
Setup
Create a Papertrail account (free)
If you don't already have an account, sign up (free).
Set up deploy hooks
- Download the template configuration files from the linked Gist to a
.cloud66
deployment folder that’s located in the root of your source code. - Ensure that the latest release of remote_syslog2 will be deployed by modifying the version number contained within the download URL.
Provide the host and port details
Edit log_files.yml and provide the account-specific Papertrail host and port number, as shown under Log Destinations.
Deploy to Cloud 66
Cloud 66 will automatically read the contents of the .cloud66
directory and apply the details configured above.
Customization
Log files
The remote_syslog.init.d file by default grabs all the log files in the directory where Cloud 66 stores logs. To add additional files, modify EXTRAOPTIONS (if environment variables are needed to specify file locations) or provide a files:
section in log_files.yml
with absolute paths.
Deploy hooks
The default deploy hooks run on servers of any target
type, and accomplish two key tasks:
- Install remote_syslog2 (once, on build)
- Copy and prepare the configuration and service files for remote_syslog2 (every deploy)
These hooks can be adjusted to meet the needs of the particular stack, as long as those two objectives are accomplished. For example:
- Some stacks may not require regular updates to remote_syslog2 configuration, so certain steps could be moved to
build_only
. - Replacing the port number in the YML with the
-p
command line option and an environment variable inEXTRAOPTIONS
to specify the Papertrail port might be desirable if the app is deployed from a public repo, since port details are account-specific and should not be committed to public repos.
More
- Cloud 66's deploy hook documentation.
- Stuck? Feel free to say hello; we like helping.