Chief is designed to do one thing: run applications on AWS.

Note This project is part of binary-fusion and aspects from that project may leak into this one.

• chief may become the application container for BF
• node.js core is focused on performance, and libuv makes coordinating multiple subprocesses extremely easy

Overview

• upstart runs chief
• chief runs the application
• environment variables are loaded in via EC2 user-data

Goals

• polyglot Procfile application server
• obtain environment dynamically
• produce individual log files

Details

• an upstart script is provided under ${GENERAL_HOME}/share/upstart.conf
  • this should be installed on your EC2 image at /etc/init/chief.conf
  • the script should auto-start
• the application must be deployed at /home/ubuntu/bundle and Procfile at /home/ubuntu/bundle/Procfile

Todo

• configure upstart script
• support scaling processes, i.e. web=2,api=2
• RESTful interface
  • control process scaling
  • get/set environment