• Documentation: https://docs.cloud-deploy.io/
• Related repositories: Claranet Github
• Cloud Deploy CLI: Casper

Cloud Deploy (Ghost Project) aims to deploy applications in the Cloud, in a secure and reliable way. Current version supports only AWS.

Key features:

• Developed in Python.
• Designed for continuous deployment.
• Create, configure and update AWS EC2 instances.
• Used to deploy customer application code.
• Cloud Deploy core is built with a REST API that any REST client can use.
• A Web User Interface, available for Claranet customers or with Enterprise license (Flask UI is now available).
• Casper: CLI client.

• virtualenv
• pip >= 9.0.1 (in local virtualenv)
• pip-tools >= 1.9.0 (in local virtualenv)

• MongoDB
• Redis
• Supervisor
• Nginx

• Cloud Deploy uses Packer to bake VM images
• Compatible with SaltStack and Ansible to provision requirements in VM images
• Uses Fabric for SSH connections and live deployment

Installing requirements:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Updating dependencies:

$ pip-compile
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Upgrading dependencies:

$ pip-compile -U
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Running unit tests with tox (sets up a virtualenv under the hood):

$ tox

Running unit tests directly (dependencies should be provided by the system or an active virtualenv):

$ ./run_tests.py

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAI*******
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=********************
$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose up

• copy accounts.yml.dist as accounts.yml
• add account with python auth.py <user> <password>. You can also use the -e <email> option to specify an email address that will receive account's creation confirmation.