Clones of the production postgres database for testing

#Features:

• Instances on Demmad. Instances are created for each build, then run tests, then terminate.
• Volumes on Demmand. Volumes are created for pgsql data and log.
• Designed to spin up instances, run tests, then terminate instances.
• Run parallel tests. Support for Multiple builds where each build can have a defined matrix of instance size's and instance counts.
• Newrelic for pgsql metrics

#INSTRUCTIONS:

• Install AWS CLI
• Configure AWS CLI with a profile
• Install Ansible: http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html
• Set ansible env: shell source ansible env
• Turn host key checking off: shell export ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False
• Ansible needs Jinja2: apt-get install python-jinja2
• If old ssh like 5.5: shell export ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS=""

• profile: super
• name: victor_frank
• pgsql_data_snap: snap-ce60eff
• pgsql_log_snap: snap-cb0bc0f
• ami_version: 2.4.2
• clones:
• i2.8xlarge: 8
• i2.4xlarge: 0
• i2.2xlarge: 0
• newrelic: 9910108157933df624056a0f5c26f19df6090a28

All commands are run from app root.

• Command: ansible-playbook -v -i build build.yml
• Output: List of EC2 intance id's and IP addresses || Error

• Command: Hey BOB, What command do you run for you test? I can add it here.
• Output: Success || Error

• Command: ansible-playbook -v -i builds/{{id}}/{{name}}.hosts test.yml
• Output: Success Confirmation || Error

#FAQ

1. How do i run buils in parallel? Each build needs a unique name

2. I don't want to use Newrelic? If you don't have a newrelic key or don't want to use newrelic, then comment out the newrelic_key variable in file group_vars/build