Deployment

Overview

• You will need to get the Amazon Access Key from https://www.passpack.com/
• We use Opscode Chef to spin up new Amazon ec2 instances and deploy ChallengeFinder.

Install Xcode

You can download it here

Install Chef

gem update --system
gem install chef net-ssh net-ssh-multi fog highline knife-ec2 knife-github-cookbooks --no-rdoc --no-ri

Configure knife

Add these lines to your ~/.bash_profile

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=THE ACCESS KEY FROM PASSPACK.COM
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=THE SECRET KEY FROM PASSPACK.COM
export EC2_AVAILABILITY_ZONE=us-west-1a
export EC2_REGION=us-west-1

Don't forget to source it:

source ~/.bash_profile

knife config:

• You will need to generate new keys to use with Opscode Chef.

• Download the key file from this page

• Download the example knife.rb

  mkdir ~/.chef cat > ~/.chef/knife.rb << EOF

  EC2 sub-command

  knife[:availability_zone] = "#{ENV['EC2_AVAILABILITY_ZONE']}" knife[:aws_access_key_id] = "#{ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID']}" knife[:aws_secret_access_key] = "#{ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']}" knife[:chef_mode] = "solo" knife[:region] = "#{ENV['EC2_REGION']}" EOF