https://johnhame.link/tags/configuration/ Recent content in Configuration on John Hamelink Hugo en John hamelink Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:18:00 +0100 https://johnhame.link/posts/pull-based-deployment-at-find-a-player/ Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:18:00 +0100 https://johnhame.link/posts/pull-based-deployment-at-find-a-player/ <p>Most startups care a lot about scalability. <a href="http://findaplayer.com">Find a player</a> is no different. A lot of people have asked me how I went about designing Find a Player&rsquo;s deployment system, so I thought I&rsquo;d document it here at a high level.</p> <h2 id="background">Background</h2> <p>Before we embarked on this project, we were using ansible to handle push-based deployments to multiple servers. However, when we looked into using an autoscaler in AWS to handle traffic spikes, we realised that a push-based deployment no longer makes sense as it requires an external widget to run the deploy on a server if it is spawned. It became very clear that it made much more sense to have the spawned server itself run the deploy locally on itself.</p>