flapjack packaging ideas

packaging.markdown

The SQS and Jenkins bits can come later...

Create an AMI

• ubuntu trusty with docker PPA and latest docker installed
• do a 'docker pull flapjack/omnibus-ubuntu'
• bake ami

Start EC2 instance using above AMI

• user data with #!/bin/bash on first line to run the flapjack build commands ie docker run ...
• the docker run commands will include calls to the scripts that update packages.flapjack.io S3 hosted website with the newly built package

SQS queue and an ASG

• create an autoscaling group that runs 1 ec2 instance of the docker build server and takes the details of the package to produce as parameters
• an ASG policy based on an alarm that fires when the queue has >= 1 message
• so the ASG will process jobs when there are jobs on the queue to be processed
• for bonus points, do this with CloudFormation

Jenkins or some such

• create jobs on the SQS queue as required based on git commits

Awesome, that'll keep me busy for a while.