# 'production' Empire example

This is meant to be a base guideline for building a production ready
[Empire][Empire] cluster. In order to launch it, you'll want to modify the
[example.env][example.env] to fit your needs. It's worth reading through the
[example.env][example.env] & [empire.yaml][empire.yaml] for the comments that
detail how things will be built. Once the env is to your liking, you can launch
the environment by running the following command:

```
$ stacker -e conf/empire/example.env -r <region> <namespace> conf/empire/empire.yaml
```

Right now it takes around 20-30 minutes to finish bringing up the entire
environment due largely to how long it takes RDS to build the Empire database.

Rather than use the ECS Container AMI that Amazon provides, the Empire team
has built their own [Empire AMI][empire_ami] based on Ubuntu 14.04.

[Empire]: https://github.com/remind101/empire/
[example.env]: https://github.com/remind101/stacker/blob/master/conf/empire/example.env
[empire.yaml]: https://github.com/remind101/stacker/blob/master/conf/empire/empire.yaml
[empire_ami]: https://github.com/remind101/empire_ami

# 'production' Empire example

This is meant to be a base guideline for building a production ready
[Empire][Empire] cluster. In order to launch it, you'll want to modify the
[example.env][example.env] to fit your needs. It's worth reading through the
[example.env][example.env] & [empire.yaml][empire.yaml] for the comments that
detail how things will be built. Once the env is to your liking, you can launch
the environment by running the following command:

```
stacker -e conf/empire/example.env -r <region> <namespace> conf/empire/empire.yaml

# Example:
stacker -e conf/empire/example.env -r us-east-1 my-unique-namespace conf/empire/empire.yaml
```

Right now it takes around 20-30 minutes to finish bringing up the entire
environment due largely to how long it takes RDS to build the Empire database.

Rather than use the ECS Container AMI that Amazon provides, the Empire team
has built their own [Empire AMI][empire_ami] based on Ubuntu 14.04.

[Empire]: https://github.com/remind101/empire/
[example.env]: https://github.com/remind101/stacker/blob/master/conf/empire/example.env
[empire.yaml]: https://github.com/remind101/stacker/blob/master/conf/empire/empire.yaml
[empire_ami]: https://github.com/remind101/empire_ami

Clarify the example a bit more
Clarify the example a bit more
