Capistrano Slug basic config. Assumes that the AMI being launched includes webserver and directory set up already. With this config after Capistrano deploys it will take an archive of the current application directory. Use `user_data.sh` when starting your EC2 instance and it'll download the latest slug and extract it - assuming the rest of the …

Capfile

set :application, 'foo-application'
set :deploy_to, '/var/www/foo-application'
set :slug_s3_bucket, 'capistrano-slug-bucket'

after 'deploy:finished',  'slug'

user_data.sh

#!/bin/bash

aws s3 cp s3://capistrano-slug-bucket/foo-application-slug.tar.gz /tmp/foo-application-slug.tar.gz
tar zxf /tmp/foo-application-slug.tar.gz -C /var/www/foo-application
rm /tmp/foo-application-slug.tar.gz