Introduction

This project sets up the Deployit online demo. It is meant to be run from a newly provisioned Amazon EC2 image.

Preparation of the AMI

Tools:

• yum update
• yum install git puppet
• change /etc/ssh/sshd_config: ** PasswordAuthentication yes ** PermitEmptyPasswords no
• curl https://raw.github.com/timkay/aws/master/aws -o aws (to download the Deployit binaries from S3, see http://timkay.com/aws/)
• https://github.com/alue/markdown-handler (to render the markdown online demo docs)

Our stuff:

• cd /etc/puppet
• git clone git://github.com/xebialabs/online-demo.git
• install dependencies (see below)
• puppet apply --modulepath /etc/puppet/online-demo/modules /etc/puppet/online-demo/manifests/database.pp
• puppet apply --modulepath /etc/puppet/online-demo/modules /etc/puppet/online-demo/manifests/webserver.pp
• puppet apply --modulepath /etc/puppet/online-demo/modules /etc/puppet/online-demo/manifests/appserver.pp

Starting the demo

• puppet apply --modulepath /etc/puppet/online-demo/modules /etc/puppet/online-demo/manifests/deployit.pp

There is an init script at

Dependencies

You'll need the following dependencies to run the demo:

• deployit-server.zip
• deployit-cli.zip
• jbossas-plugin.jar
• deployment-test2-plugin-1.0-milestone-7.jar
• jboss-5.1.0.GA.zip (from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/jboss/JBoss/JBoss-5.1.0.GA/jboss-5.1.0.GA.zip)

They are stored in an S3 bucket deployit-online-demo.

Provisioning a demo

• launch a Large instance from our Online Demo AMI
• wait until it is up
• copy the public DNS name
• try to access http://PUBLIC_DNS_NAME:4516/

How it works

The AMI already contains all required middleware to be able to run the demo. When it starts, the httpd server, jboss and mysql are all started through init scripts.

Quirks:

• the downloaded files end up in directory /download-cache to keeps things in sync with our current vagrant setup.
• the directory /demo-files on the AMI is also used, it is a symlink to the files directory in this project.

Accessing the demo

To access the Deployit server, visit http://PUBLIC_DNS_NAME:4516/

Username/password: admin/admin

Documentation can be found at http://PUBLIC_DNS_NAME/online-demo/

Demo email

When a customer requests a demo, send him/her an email with the following content:

Dear Deployit customer,

thank you for requesting a Deployit demo!

xxx

These are the addresses and credentials you will need:

Deployit online demo: *specify URL*
Deployit username: *specify username*
Deployit password: *specify password*

Deployit online demo scenario: *specify URL*

The demo makes use of some middleware, namely an apache webserver, JBoss application server and MySQL database. You can access the webserver on *specify URL*.



We hope you enjoy learning about the Deployit application release automation solution. If you have any questions or run into problems, please contact us at http://support.xebialabs.com.


Sincerely,

XebiaLabs