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bundle exec cap staging maintenance:enable REASON="a test of maintenance mode" UNTIL="12pm Eastern Time"

• Deploy as usual / desired
• Do anything else needed on the server that required the downtime

bundle exec cap staging maintenance:disable

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• This keeps us from publishing server names, etc, in the cap config files which live in our public repo.
• don't change the Host designation without:
  • Changing it in capistrano, e.g. deploy/staging.rb, to match
  • Clearing it with everyone who might deploy (they'll have to change their ssh config as well.
• this will use your personal ssh key – the one that matches your public key on github, which is added to the deploy user by ansible scripts.

List all vars in ansible repo!

#!/bin/bash

for F in `find . -type d -name defaults`

do

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• .

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  echo

  echo $G

  cat $G

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General Notes

Notes from conversations with Alicia

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