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DESCRIPTION:

An 'under the hood' look at Engineyard's cloud infrastructure from a user with no affiliation with the company. A 'hands-on coding' presentation with no powerpoint and lots of 'how to do it'. 

See how EY's cloud works, how to configure it, how to customize the gem environment and deploy process, how to troubleshoot problems, and how to customize your environment using Chef. 


ABSTRACT:

This session is designed for individuals with no experience with Engineyard or Cloud Deployment in general up to those with extnsive experience with competing infrastructures who are interested in the details of how Engineyard is different.

No powerpoint will be presented. This is a hands-on session with a view 'under the hood' of deploying and customizing applications on the Engineyard Cloud platform.

Presented will be content on:

 - Creating instances and applications,
 - Implementing access control
 - Customizing the gem and os environments
 - Adding multiple applications per server
 - Configuring Nginx and Passenger environments
 - Installing 'delayed_job' for background processing
 - Customizing your installation using Chef
 - Debugging deployment issues