zauberware-devops

Library of useful scripts for DevOps using capistrano with rails.

Only supports Capistrano 3 and above.

Requirements

'capistrano', '~> 3.0'
'whenever'

Installation

Add the gem to your Gemfile after setting up Capistrano group:

group :development do
  gem 'capistrano', require: false
end

gem 'zauberware-devops'

Then bundle and add it to your Capfile

# Capfile

require 'zauberware/devops/capistrano'

and initializers

# initializers/zauberware_devops.rb
require 'zauberware/devops'

Script overview

Script	Description
cap <environment> backup:create	creates backup of postgres database on the server
cap <environment> backup:pull	download latest postgres backup from server
cap <environment> figaro_yml:compare	compare local application.yml with server application.yml
cap <environment> figaro_yml:get	shows env vars from server application.yml configured thru figaro
cap <environment> logs:rails	display server log live
cap <environment> whenever:show_crontab	display server app crontab generated with whenever
cap <environment> invoke:rake TASK=<your:task>	invoke rake task on server
rake pg:dump	creates postgres database backup
rake pg:remove_old_dumps	remove old postgres backups

Usage

for all backup task you have to setup your database.yml properly:

production:

  database: database_name
  username: database_username
  password: database_password
  host: database_host
  port: database_port

Optional Settings for backup task

env	description
NUMBER_OF_BACKUPS	number of backups to keep
BACKUPS_ENABLED	enable/disable backup task
DEFAULT_URL	for slack integration message title
SLACK_SECRET	for slack integration
SLACK_CHANNEL	for slack integration

use with whenever/capistrano

install whenever gem and add this to your schedule.rb

# config/schedule.rb
# Use this file to easily define all of your cron jobs.
env :PATH, ENV['PATH']
set :output, -> { '2>&1 | logger -t whenever_cron' }

every :day, at: '2:00 am' do
  rake 'pg:dump'
end

every :day, at: '3:00 am' do
  rake 'pg:remove_old_dumps'
end

add this to your capfile

# Capfile
require 'whenever/capistrano'

Configuration

You can optionally specify the capistrano roles for the rake task (Defaults to :app):

# Defaults to [:app]
set :rake_roles, %i[db app]

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/zauberware/zauberware-devops/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.