If you already have everything indexed in Solr elsewhere, a way to cut down
the BL slug size is to remove/ignore the SolrMarc.jar. It's pretty sizable.

-Sean


On 3/29/12 12:16 PM, "Chris Fitzpatrick" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've deployed Blacklight on both Heroku and Elastic BeanStalk.
> 
> Heroku is still a much better choice. The only issue I had was I
> needed to make sure the sass-rails gem in installed in the :production
> gem group and not just development.
> 
>  I still have an issue of getting heroku to compile all my
> sass/coffeescript/etc assets on update, but it actually doesn't seem
> to make much of an impact on performance. The minor issue is that it
> would be nice to figure out a way to slim down BL's slug size. The
> lowest I've been able to get it is about 30mb and Heroku recommends
> having it be below 25mb.
> 
> I have not used Heroku's solr service (I still use EC2 for my solr
> deployments).
> EngineYard would also be another option.
> 
> There is also an AMI for DSpace, so deploying that to EC2 should be
> pretty easy....
> 
> b,chris.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Rosalyn Metz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Erik,
>> 
>> I haven't tried it (recently) on PaaS providers, but I have on IaaS.  The
>> AMIs I've created in association with start up scripts (if you're
>> interested in seeing those let me know, I'd have to look for them somewhere
>> or other) mean that the application automagically starts up on its own, all
>> you need to do is go to the URL.  I've used this as a back up method in the
>> past and I think would be a great way for people to be able to play with
>> the different apps before committing.
>> 
>> To this end, I created an AMI for Blacklight a while back:
>> http://www.rosalynmetz.com/ami-3c10f255/  I guarantee you it is grossly out
>> of date.  I also have instructions on creating an EBS backed AMI:
>> http://rosalynmetz.com/ideas/2011/04/14/creating-an-ebs-backed-ami/ which
>> is the method I used for creating the Blacklight AMI. These instructions
>> are also fairly old, but I still get comments on my blog now and then that
>> the method works.
>> 
>> I also played around with it on Heroku, but that was so long ago I don't
>> think any of the things I learned still apply (this was when Heroku was
>> fairly new to the scene).  Hope some of this helps.
>> 
>> Rosalyn
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Seth van Hooland <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Erik,
>>> 
>>> Bram Wiercx and myself have given a talk on how to put together a package
>>> to install CollectiveAccess on Red Hat's OpenShift:
>>> http://www.dish2011.nl/sessions/open-source-software-platform-collectiveacce
>>> s-as-a-service-solution
>>> .
>>> 
>>> My students are currently happily playing around with CollectiveAccess,
>>> which they have installed on OpenShift. My teaching assistant Max De Wilde
>>> has developed clear guidelines on how to run the installation procedure:
>>> http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/redhat_ca_install.pdf.
>>> 
>>> It would be wonderful to aggregate these kind of installation procedure's
>>> for other types of LIS applications...
>>> 
>>> Kind regards and looking forward to your book!
>>> 
>>> Seth van Hooland
>>> Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la
>>> Communication (MaSTIC)
>>> Université Libre de Bruxelles
>>> Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123  | 1050 Bruxelles
>>> http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/
>>> http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland
>>> http://mastic.ulb.ac.be
>>> 0032 2 650 4765
>>> Office: DC11.113
>>> 
>>> Le 29 mars 2012 à 14:10, Erik Mitchell a écrit :
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I have been toying with the process of implementing common LIS
>>>> applications (e.g. Vufind, Dspace, Blacklight. .  .) on PaaS providers
>>>> like Heroku and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.  I have just tried out of
>>>> the box distributions so far and have not made much progress but was
>>>> wondering if someone else had tried this or had ideas about what
>>>> issues I might run into.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Erik
>>>> 
>>>> Erik Mitchell
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> College of Information Studies
>>>> University of Maryland, College Park
>>>> http://ischool.umd.edu
>>>