Agility in Deployment - Rails in the Cloud

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Engine Yard shows a concrete deploy stack running on Amazon Web Services: one-button deploy integrated with git and Capistrano, live demo of server-for-server staging that clones production including data, and a self-healing cluster where each app node monitors peers and auto‑boots replacements on failure. Features include one‑click scale up/down, dedicated DB tier, and dynamic scaling. Engine Yard Solo ships the deploy workflow today; Engine Yard Flex, the on‑demand cluster product, is slated for end of June.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:30Cloud provisioning challenges
3. 2:57Engine Yard Rails platform
4. 3:40One-click scaling demo
5. 5:50Self-healing clusters
6. 6:53Staging environment practices
7. 9:42Engine Yard Flex future
8. 10:24Closing remarks

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