Philosophy

Here are some of the core ideas behind rubber

• Keep deployment as a first class citizen
  • Its files are close at hand, in the same tree as your application, so its easy to update.
  • Your deployment configuration gets version controlled
  • You configuration is centralized, and easily available inside your app as well as at deploy time
• Flexible with sane defaults
  • Very easy out the box solution to quickly bring up something useable
  • You can pretty much tweak, completely change, or add whatever aspects you need for your system
• Scalable by default.
  • Scales both up and down
  • You can either run a single instance with everything, or break things up as needed to scale individual roles.
  • Your staging setup is basically the same as your production setup to increase odds of successful deploys.
• Redundancy baked in
  • You are running in the cloud, so any instance can go poof
  • Can have as many instances in each role as needed to ensure uptime