We use BoxGrinder to build TorqueBox virtual machines so you can start using TorqueBox today! BoxGrinder is a set of projects from JBoss that makes it easy to grind out appliances for multiple virtualization and cloud providers. TorqueBox currently provides a 64-bit appliance for Amazon AWS. With the imminent release of TorqueBox 1.0.0.Final we intend to also provide a 32-bit AWS appliance, and a VMWare virtual machine.
The TorqueBox 1.0.0 Final appliance is a 64-bit virtual machine: ami-e8827d81.
Use your favorite AWS tools to launch an instance. Once launched TorqueBox
should be running on port 8080. To install
stompbox and/or
backstage do the following:
$ sudo su
$ jruby -S backstage deploy --secure=user:pass
$ jruby -S stompbox deploy --setup-db --auto-migrate --secure=user:pass
You are not required to set a username and password for these applications,
however it is strongly encouraged. If you want to leave them wide open, omit
the --secure flag. For stompbox, unless your database is already setup and
configured for stompbox, you'll need to include the --setup-db and
--auto-migrate flags.
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Get a BoxGrinder Meta appliance and fire it up
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Login to the meta appliance:
ssh -i yourkey.pem ec2-user@public.dns.ami -
Configure /root/.boxgrinder/config as specified in the BoxGrinder documentation
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Become root
$ sudo su -
Clone torquebox-appliances in /mnt:
$ cd /mnt && git clone git://github.com/torquebox/torquebox-appliances.git -
Clone rumpler:
$ git clone git://github.com/torquebox/rumpler.git -
Rumple:
$ cd torquebox-appliances && rake torquebox:rumple -
Build RPMs:
$ rake torquebox:rpm -
Build an appliance
$ rake appliance:ebs