RightScale Support Wiki

Getting Started

• Signing Up for RightScale
• RightScale Basics
• Basic Example
• Intermediate Example

Deployment Setup

• Create a Security Group
• Create an S3 Bucket
• Create an SSH Key
• Domain Setup with DNSMadeEasy
  
• Create Elastic IPs (EIP)
  
• Create a Production deployment
• Create Credentials to access your database

MySQL Setup

• Create a Redundant MySQL Setup

App Server Setups

• PHP FrontEnd Server
  
• TomCat FrontEnd Server + HAProxy
  
• Rails FrontEnd Server

All-In-One Server Setups (Developer Edition)

• LAMP Server

Rails-All-In-One Server Setups (Trial Edition)

• Rails All-in-One
  

References

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  
  • EC2 Instance Types

• AWS Service Health Dashboard
• Logging Tools
• Manager for MySQL Runbook
• Monitoring System
  • Alert System
    
  • List of Monitored Metrics
    
  • Setting up collectd
  • Writing custom collectd plugins
• RightGrid
• RightScripts
  
• Decommission Scripts
  
• mirror.rightscale.com
  

FAQS

• How do I get started?
• Why is my 'PHP SVN code checkout' failing?
• How do I ssh into my machine?
• How do I sign up for Amazon's Web Services?
• How do I get Amazon Credentials?
• In my logs, I see this message
• How do I ensure that HAProxy doesn't forward traffic to other sites?