[LRUG] Launching websites

Tue Aug 9 02:05:36 PDT 2016

Hi,

There are couple of type of systems to archive that, I have tried all of
them but mostly for short period of time.

For example heavy enterprise solutions, such as Salt [1], really fast with
dedicated communication with nodes and stuff, I would pick this over Puppet
and Chef. However with all those heavy tools, the learning and maintenance
cost is pretty high. You better have to be very serious to get any benefit
from them.

Then there are Docker crazy, I would say stay away from it unless you are
Facebook or Google size, it's still more trouble than real benefit for
small and medium size setups.

We, as small ruby shop, currently recommend Babushka [2] to setup nodes and
Mina [3] to super fast everyday deployments. Mina is super fast solutions
compare to Capistrano, we talk about seconds to deploy in everyday
situation.

[1] https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/
[2] https://babushka.me/
[3] http://nadarei.co/mina/

Have fun!

Kind Regards,

Priit Tark
Lead Developer

Gitlab Ltd
Office: +372 6 099 000
Phone: +372 56 202 386
http://gitlab.eu

On 9 August 2016 at 09:12, Ben Jackson <ben.jackson1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Like the Terraform idea, you could use any provisioning software for this.
> Ansible is a good one, fairly simple - it uses yml as a format for
> configuring all the steps to run and variables to use.
>
> You just code up each step you normally carry out manually. Every step
> ideally has a way of knowing it's already been done so it can be skipped
> when run the next time. That way if any step fails, you can adjust the
> variables or the code and run again without needing to redo everything
> already done.
>
> Ben
>
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 at 17:49, Jon Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't have the same problem as you (i.e. I don't create lots of
>> separate websites) but I've been using Terraform (
>> https://www.terraform.io/) a bit recently. I think it could help you
>> automate some of that list, assuming the providers you want to use are
>> supported by Terraform (it's still fairly new and shiny).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jon
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, at 02:17 PM, David Vaks wrote:
>>
>> Hi LRUG,
>>
>> This is slightly off topic, but I can imagine some of you might have
>> faced this situation. I've been launching quite a few Rails websites
>> lately. It usually involves at least the following for me:
>> - Domain registration and DNS setup
>> - Server/Host configuration: Heroku setup (registration, environment
>> variables for some of the steps above) or Docker setup
>> - Deployment
>> - Security aspects: TLS certificates, HTTPS setup, HTTP security headers,
>> etc
>> - Legal aspects: cookie policy, T&Cs, privacy, etc (implications from
>> other steps)
>> - Email: basic setup, SPF/DKIM for the spam, create RFC email addresses,
>> etc
>> - Mailing list setup (MailChimp or others)
>> - Social media: signup to a few social networks, add "social sharing"
>> buttons
>> - Analytics/instrumentation/monitoring (Google Analytics, New Relic, etc)
>> - Search engine registration/indexation (Google, Bing)
>> - etc
>>
>> Some of these steps are interlinked and that's only for fairly "basic
>> website" without any payment, A/B testing, user feedback or advertising
>> requirements.
>>
>> None of it is particularly complex, although it does require some
>> knowledge/experience, but it takes quite a lot of time and feels repetitive.
>>
>> There are lots of great products/services for the individual steps
>> involved, but I can't find anything to streamline the whole (or at least
>> part of the) process.
>>
>> Does anyone know any good tool, product, checklist or website for this?
>> Do you have the same problem? How do you handle this yourself?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> David
>>
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