Do you use any deployment tool to deploy play-framework

[howa]

Just want to know what is your preferred way to deploy play-framework based application?

Do you use any third party deployment tools like fabric?

Thanks.

[Marcel Klemenz]

We use a script that uses rsync over ssh.
First it precompiles the app, stops the application remotely, than it syncs the code (without delete, you don't want your attachments to be removed) and at last it restarts the application. Works, is fast and secure.

[Adam Lane]

If you are using Amazon EC2 here is some info I have gathered thanks to other posters here in the past.

I like to use s3tools to copy dist file to s3 bucket. Once your deployment zip is in s3, then it is quick for all your other instances to pull it.  To install on an AMI:
    sudo yum --enablerepo epel install s3cmd
    (If this fails then you probably have not allowed enough outgoing and incoming traffic to your EC2 Security Group.
    http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Appendix_NACLs.html)
    s3cmd --configure
    (http://s3tools.org/s3cmd)

Local build script to dist and push to s3:

  play compile stage
  play -Dconfig.file=conf/amazon.conf dist
  python c:\python27\scripts\s3cmd put dist/mentormyself-1.0.zip s3://mentormyself

Use a local Fabric script to initiate remote pull (sleep and pty settings to get around some scp bugs):

     def release():
        run('./doRelease.sh & sleep 5;', shell=True, pty=False)

deRelease.sh on EC2 (which is also set to run at startup for autoscaled instances to autostart)

#!/bin/bash
rm /tmp/mentormyself-1.0.zip
s3cmd get s3://mentormyself/mentormyself-1.0.zip /tmp
killall java || true
rm -rf mentormyself
mkdir mentormyself
unzip -q /tmp/mentormyself-1.0.zip -d mentormyself
sh mentormyself/mentormyself-1.0/start -Dhttp.port=8080 >out 2>&1 &

Better yet use "supervisor" to start and stop play as service (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/play-framework/BlV4c3q8hxE)
using something like this in your config

[program:mytest]

user=ec2-user

command=/home/ec2-user/appdir/appdis-1.0/start -Dconfig.resource=amazon.conf -Dlogger.resource=logger-prod.xml -Dhttp.port=8080 -Dpidfile.path=/dev/null

stderr_logfile=/var/log/mytest/stderr.log

stdout_logfile=/var/log/mytest/stdout.log

[Cory Watson]

On Nov 6, 2012, at 8:15 AM, howa <howa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just want to know what is your preferred way to deploy play-framework based application?

Do you use any third party deployment tools like fabric?

I use capistrano and it works quite well.

Cory G Watson
@gphat

[Giovanni]

I use capistrano for my ruby on rails projects. I didn't know that it is usable also for Play.

Can you give us some references (tutorials, links, etc.) about the utilization of capistrano with Play?

Best regards,
giovanni

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[Cory Watson]

On Nov 7, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Giovanni <pino...@gmail.com> wrote:

I use capistrano for my ruby on rails projects. I didn't know that it is usable also for Play.

Can you give us some references (tutorials, links, etc.) about the utilization of capistrano with Play?

I can't think of much that capistrano isn't usable for.  If combined with railsless-deploy[0] it's very capable, just poorly documented.

Here's a sample of my cap file: https://gist.github.com/4035968

0 - https://github.com/leehambley/railsless-deploy

Cory G Watson
@gphat