Automatically deploying assets to Rackspace CDN via git and updating references to those assets?

Question

I'm looking for some help in designing a strategy to automate deployment of a web application's assets (images, css, js) to Rackspace's Cloud Files (CDN) service.

I currently use git push to deploy the web app to a remote server. So here's one way I'm thinking this could happen. Are there any better/cleaner methods?

• Dev makes changes to an asset file (css, js, or an image)
• Dev commits his changes
• Dev pushes his changes to the server
• Assets are automatically renamed to eliminate cache issues (append git version?) and sent to the CDN
• Referencing code would be automatically updated to new filename

FYI, this is a PHP app in CodeIgniter 2.x if it matters.

Happy to hear any ideas, alternative or not.

Answer 1

try this its completely automated: https://github.com/rumblelabs/asset_sync

Answer 2

There's a paid service http://beanstalkapp.com/features/deployments for auto deployments to cloud files or other servers.

Answer 3

Since you're using PHP you should seriously consider using the Rackspace PHP SDK. You can find sample code for working with the CDN service. It'll be a lot easier to work with than writing directly to the Cloud Files API.

Answer 4

This github repository will do at least part of what you are asking.

https://github.com/bermi/cloudfiles-mirror

Answer 5

This might be what you're looking for:

https://github.com/phillc/cloud-files-asset-sync

Answer 6

I'm not aware of anything, but you could probably script something to do this without too much work.

Check out Fog or the official ruby-cloudfiles gem from Rackspace.

Answer 7

I've not found anything to automatically do it.

You can use the Rack Space Cloud File API ( http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/api/ ) to upload files to Rackspace's CDN aware containers.