Moonshot

Because releasing services shouldn't be a moonshot.

Overview

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Moonshot is a Ruby gem for provisioning environments in AWS using a CLI. The environments are centered around a single CloudFormation stack and supported by pluggable systems:

• A DeploymentMechanism controls releasing code.
• A BuildMechanism creates a release artifact.
• A ArtifactRepository stores the release artifacts.

Design Goals

These are core ideas to the creation of this project. Not all are met to the level we'd like (e.g. CloudFormation isn't much of a Choice currently), but we should aspire to meet them with each iteration.

• Simplicity: It shouldn't take more than a few hours to understand what your release tooling does.
• Choice: As much as possible, each component should be pluggable and omittable, so teams are free to use what works best for them.
• Verbosity: The output of core Moonshot code should explain in detail what changes are being made, so knowledge is shared and not abstracted.

Existing limitations

• Moonshot does not support detailed error logging from Cloudformation substacks.
• Moonshot does not support a non-local cloudformation file.

Installation

Install the Moonshot gem:

$ gem install moonshot

After installation, there is still some work required. Follow the example documentation as described below to dig in!

Getting started

The Moonshot tool has been designed to be an extensible library for your specific use-case. Interested in how it can be used? See our example documentation. The example doc uses the files shown in the sample directory so you can figure out how to modify this for your own deployment strategy.

We also want to help you contribute and answer all your questions on how Moonshot is maintained.

Requirements

• Ruby 2.2 or higher

Attributions

Thanks to Acquia Inc. for sponsoring the time to work on this tool. Thanks to Ted for the funky logo.