getting the party started

[spidaman]

I'm trying figure out how to play with poolparty. My prior experience
with AWS was with a python code base and I used boto extensively. It
wasn't a public facing web service so the requirements were different
from my current ones. Since the current body of work is in ruby, I
started looking at right_aws and using puppet for provisioning and
code deployment as well elastic IPs with HA-Proxy for web service
availability, that's how I ended up looking at poolparty :)

In summary, the setup that I'm headed for is:
* EC2
* HA-Proxy tier
* Apache 2 + mod_passenger app tier
* MySQL db tier

I'd like to start off simply provisioning and manually launching/
tearing down instances (no monitoring + autoscaling initially), but
I'm having a hard time figuring out where to start. Is there a
poolparty recipe for this I can crib?

thanks!
-Ian