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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 >>>