I use the stackster to manage stacks, however I understand how to connect to different regions / accounts as well as kick off a deployment on instances.

Getting Started

Install the gem

gem install simple_deploy

Create a file ~/.simple_deploy.yml and include within it:

``` environments: preprod_shared_us_west_1: access_key: XXX secret_key: yyy region: us-west-1

notifications: campfire: token: XXX ```

Notifications

Currently Simple Deploy only supports Campfire for notifications. To enable them, add your token, which can be obtained on the ‘My Info’ screen of Campfire in the notifications yaml above. If you don’t want notificaitons, omit this section.

Advaned Configurations

The configuration file supports additional optional deployment parameters.

Deploy can have a ssh user and key set. These will be used to connect to both the gateway and tunnel through to instances.

Commands

For a list of commands, run simple_deploy -h. To get more information about each subcommand, append a -h after the subcomand. For example: simple_deploy deploy -h.

Deploying

By default simple deploy will use your user name and id_rsa key for deployments. To override either these, set the SIMPLE_DEPLOY_SSH_USER & SIMPLE_DEPLOY_SSH_KEY respectively.

The deployment gateway is ready from the ssh_gateway attribute for that stack.