This Starter Kit provides the basic building blocks for deploying, updating and scaling Java-based applications on Qubell Platform, and can be used as a starting point for your own automation project.

• Launching a new sandbox instance of a web application
• Updating an existing live application to a new version of the source code and/or database schema
• Scaling the web tier up and down

• Tomcat 5, MySQL 5, HAProxy 1.4, CentOS 6.4 (us-east-1/ami-eb6b0182), AWS EC2 m1.small, root

• Configured Cloud Account a in chosen environment
• Either installed Chef on target compute OR launch under root
• All pre-requisites from the components above