Pony Up

A friendly DSL on top of Rake to define and launch your cloud services. Uses Fog to talk to the cloud.

This is all for AWS right now.

Philosophy

• Infrastructure as code
• Start with basic building blocks: security groups, hosts, etc
• Everything at a higher level can be done by chef
• Provide the transition from lower layer (fog) to apps (chef)

Overview

~/.fog

First, set up your ~/.fog file with credentials and defaults:

:production:
  :aws_access_key_id: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  :aws_secret_access_key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  :region: us-east-1
  :key_name: production
  :image_id: ami-9b85eef2
  :flavor_id: t1.micro

Your key_name field should have a matching ~/.ssh/{key_name}.pem file. If you name the group in fog anything other than default you will need to use the FOG_CREDENTIAL environment variable when running rake.

Rakefile

require_relative 'lib/ponyup'

security 'web', [80, 8080]

host 'appserver', 'web', 'recipe[appserver]'

task :default => :ponyup

Invocation

To set up your full set of hosts and security groups:

rake FOG_CREDENTIAL=production

To tear down your server:

rake host:appserver:destroy [FOG_CREDENTIAL=...]

To see all availabe tasks:

rake -D

Examples

There are examples in the examples/ directory.