deploynode v0.0.2

deploynode

A fast way to setup a deploy system on an Amazon Linux EC2 instance.

Setting up a new instance

1. In the EC2 console create a new Amazon Linux instance. For this example, the instance will be called api.servername.com. Make sure you have SSH access to it.

2. On your development computer, run the following commands in a GitHub repository.

npm install --save-dev deploynode
deploynode init api.servername.com [github_username]

If not supplied, github_username will default to the owner of the current repo, as specified in the package.json repository url property.

(Note: if ./node_modules/.bin is not in your path then you'll have to type ./node_modules/bin/deploynode instead, or install it globally using sudo npm install -g deploynode).

Commands:

• init: Install the current directory's node package on the server.
• push: Update the code on the server.
• start: Start a process which runs npm start on the server.

How it works

What it does to a remote server:

• Installs git using yum
• Installs Node.js using yum
• Creates a deploy key if it doesn't already exist
• Grants read/write access to the GitHub repository for the new deploy key.

• Clones the repo.