Reliably Deploying Rails Applications: Hassle free provisioning, reliable deployment (2014)

14.0 - End of Part 1

Conclusion

The aim of this section has been twofold.

Firstly to clearly document a example configuration for provisioning a server suitable for a typical Ruby on Rails application. Once you’re comfortable with this template, getting a new instance ready for a Rails app should be a trivial task. No more complicated - an eventually as instinctual - as setting up a new Rails application for development.

The real power of Chef, or any configuration management tool, comes when you’re sufficiently comfortable with it that using it for every change or improvement to a server becomes second nature.

Therefore secondly and most importantly, I hope this section has demonstrated how simple it is to use tools like Chef to automate the provisioning process. Please go ahead and fork my recipes, swap out my simple recipes for your own forks or more complex versions until you have a template which is perfectly tailored to the apps you’re deploying.

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