Start a conversation

Articles

  • Add Cron Jobs

    Adding a scheduled task (cron job) to your environment can be done via your Dashboard. The task will be added to your application master instance under the crontab of either your deploy user or the ro...

  • Configure and Deploy Resque

    Resque is a Ruby job queue. You can find it and all you need to know about coding for it in the readme for Resque. Importat note:  the discussion below covers how to run Resque on Engine Yard, while t...

  • Add Redis to Your Application

    Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server because keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets. This page describes gettin...

  • Obtain and Install SSL Certificates for Applications

    This page describes how to obtain an SSL certificate from a third-party vendor and how to install the SSL certificate on an Engine Yard Cloud environment. The process is: Prerequisite: A chosen SSL-ce...

  • Chef Recipes V4 vs V5/V6/V7

    Overview Engine Yard Stack V5 changed the way chef runs.  This article describes the main differences with previous versions.  Information V4 vs V5 On versions prior to V5, including V4, Chef used to ...

  • Checking If Chef Recipe is Enabled

    Overview You have uploaded multiple cookbooks to customize your environment and you wish to determine which of these have actually been enabled or turned on.  Content: Process when using V5 Stack Proc...

  • HTTP/2 is coming to Engine Yard

    HTTP/2 published as RFC 7540 during May 2015. This version of HTTP protocol enables a more efficient use of network resources and a reduced perception of latency by introducing header field compressio...

  • Custom Chef Recipes — Examples & Best Practices

    * This article refers to chef recipes on our V4 stack. If you are running stack V5 review our Custom Chef for V5 documentation. The Engine Yard Cloud stack that we provide is carefully provisioned and...

  • Customize Your Environment with Chef Recipes

    You can use Chef recipes to customize your Engine Yard Cloud environments. You can edit cookbooks that are provided by Engine Yard or you can make your own cookbooks. This page describes how to work w...

  • Blocking Subdomains via Nginx Configuration

    Overview  Your current configuration allows specific domains to reach the app server and you noticed that subdomains not included in the configuration are also reaching the server. You wish to know ho...