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Engine Yard Cloud
Get Started
- Video Tutorial: Set up an Account and Deploy an Application
- Tutorial: How to Deploy the ToDo Application on a Trial Account
- Sign up for a Full Engine Yard Account
- Set Up Your Application and Environment
- Set up Your Local Environment for Ruby on Rails
- Host Your Code on GitHub
Introduction
Manage your Account
- Before You Begin: Set Up Your AWS Account And User
- About Accounts
- Canceling your account
- Managing Multiple Logins
- Upgrade a Free Trial Account to a Full Account
- Adding and Removing Users on Engine Yard Cloud
Manage your Environment
- Using Amazon Application Load Balancers
- New Relic Infrastructure Agent
- Encrypted EBS
- Use Cloud Storage with Engine Yard
- Create an Environment
- About Environments on Engine Yard Cloud
Deploy your Application
- ★ Deploy a Webpacker app on Engine Yard Cloud
- Using 'yarn' to manage NodeJS modules for assets compilation
- config/puma.rb Overwrites Engine Yard Configuration Options
- Use Non-Ruby Deploy Hooks
- How Your Ruby Code Is Deployed on Engine Yard Cloud
- Deploy from Your Dashboard
Manage Your Instances
- ★ Autoscaling of application instances
- Restarting an instance
- Modifying Instance Volumes
- EY Instance Access Controls and Logging
- Sizing Your Instances
- Amazon Instance Type Support
Manage your Database
- About Database Replica Promotion
- Access Your Database Remotely Through an SSH Tunnel
- Backup the Database
- Can I rename my database?
- Checking for Connections
- Copy database tables to/from different environments
Manage your IP Addresses
Work with SSH (Secure Shells)
Monitor your Application
- Filesystem Health Checks
- About Monitoring Your Application
- Set up Application Monitoring
- About Alerts for Your Environment
- Monitor Application Uptime
- View Usage Graphs
Troubleshooting
- ★ Troubleshoot Deployment
- Passenger + nginx on Engine Yard's stack V5 (16.06)
- Diagnose Errors
- Bundler Version Issue “uninitialized contant Gem::SilentUI (NameError)”
- Site is Down: Diagnostic Checklist
- Termination Failed error when shutting down an instance
Migrate Applications
Customize
- HTTP/2 is coming to Engine Yard
- Custom Chef Recipes — Examples & Best Practices
- Customize Your Environment with Chef Recipes
- Obtain and Install SSL Certificates for Applications
- Add Redis to Your Application
- Configure and Deploy Resque
Early Access
Instance Provisioning API Early Access
Upgrades and Tools
- ★ Working with /mnt size on EY Cloud
- Instance and Stack EOL
- Use M2 instances
- Use M4 Instances
- Use C4 Instances
- About Amazon VPC on Engine Yard
Engine Yard Gentoo 16.06
Engine Yard Gentoo 12.11
Engine Yard Gentoo 2009
PHP
NodeJS
Billing/Finance
- How long do I have to pay my failed charges?
- I've cancelled my account, why am I being charged?
- Can I view my billing history and who on my account can see billing history?
- How do I update my credit card information?
- How can I estimate my monthly bill?
- My credit card expired or was declined and the payment failed. How do I fix it to prevent my account from being suspended?
Add-ons
News and Notes
Engine Yard Platform Release Notes
Announcements
- ★ 2017.12.29 - Platform Maintenance
- ★ Stable V5 Now GA
- Pending Engine Yard Sale
- Announcement: Badgeville integration into Zendesk
- Announcement: New Help Center look and Functionality
- AWS S3 Storage Now Available
Engine Yard Stack Release Notes
- ★ Engine Yard Release Notes for February 20th, 2019
- Engine Yard Release Notes for January 30th, 2019
- Engine Yard Release Notes for January 23rd, 2019
- Engine Yard Release Notes for December 19th, 2018
- Engine Yard Release Notes for December 11th, 2018
- Engine Yard Release Notes for December 5th, 2018
Engine Yard Known Issues
- Recent deployment issues via Bundler version-locking
- Dashboard prompting to 'Repair Firewall'
- PHP 5.4 is the version available by default: if you need PHP 5.3
- Upsizing from 32 bit to 64 bit instances
- Redis Upgrade Does Not Automatically Restart Server
- Adding a utility instance to an existing solo instance results in an incorrect memcached address
Security Updates
- ★ Meltdown and Spectre Response
- March 2019 RubyGems Security Advisories
- August 30, 2017 - RubyGems security vulnerability
- ImageMagick Imagetragick Vulnerability
- Datadog Security Incident
- OpenSSL May 2016 advisory