
Urbandive is an immersive view service launched by the French YellowPages which allows you to travel in cities in France thanks to a 360° view. Urbandive focuses on providing high definition pictures and accurate professional and social content. One of the biggest jobs was to enable a fast scalable architecture, because it was really difficult to forecast the traffic load at production time. Traffic load may be influenced if the service receives attention from users as a result of advertising.
Below you will find a summary of the goals we achieve by using a Ruby scheduler built on top of Puppet on AWS to create a complete infrastructure.
Workflow & XTR-Lucid
Our scalability combo is : a home-made Ruby scheduler (XTR-Lucid) to deal with AWS APIs + the Puppet Master to install services and configure EC2 instances and keep them up-to-date during all the production time. This leads to full automation.
Here is the workflow (for the creation step, there are other workflows for stop/reboot/health-check/…) of our automation tool. The dashboard allows you to select a template (which contains the following informations : AMI id, instance type, availability zone, key, list of security groups, list of EBS – from snapshots or not -, …) and to set a name for the instance in the « create » workflow.
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