REA site performance pre-interview task

Provision a new application server and deploy the following application

write configuration as code recipes in chef / puppet / ansible / babushka / shell scripts to

• deploy this application onto a vanilla OS image (Centos/Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL)
• use apache modpassenger / unicorn nginx or whatever you like to serve up the application on port 80
• provision a web server with ruby to deploy the packaged Sinatra application
• ensure that the server is locked down and secure
• deploy the hello world application

Expected output

• chef / puppet / ansible / babushka / shell scripts that we can use to deploy the following application

To get this application working locally

git clone git://github.com/tnh/simple-sinatra-app.git
shell $ bundle install
shell $ bundle exec rackup

Mod passenger: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html

Unicorn nginx: http://sirupsen.com/setting-up-unicorn-with-nginx/