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+# Deployment #
+
+These instructions are targeting a Debian GNU/Linux system. You might need to
+change the commands to match your own needs.
+
+## Server Preperation ##
+
+### Dependencies ##
+
+The following packages need to be installed:
+
+* git
+* ruby1.9
+* rubygems1.9
+* couchdb (if you want to use a local couch)
+
+### Setup Capistrano ###
+
+We use puppet to deploy. But we also ship an example deploy.rb in
+config/deploy.rb.example. Edit it to match your needs if you want to use
+capistrano.
+
+run `cap deploy:setup` to create the directory structure.
+
+run `cap deploy` to deploy to the server.
+
+## Customized Files ##
+
+Please make sure your deploy includes the following files:
+
+* `public/config/provider.json` -- provider bootstrap file.
+* `config/couchdb.yml` -- normal webapp couchdb configuration.
+* `config/couchdb.admin.yml` -- configuration used for rake tasks.
+
+## Couch Security ##
+
+We recommend against using an admin user for running the webapp. To avoid this
+couch design documents need to be created ahead of time and the auto update
+mechanism needs to be disabled. Take a look at `test/travis/setup_couch.sh`
+for an example of securing the couch.
+
+### DESIGN DOCUMENTS ###
+
+After securing the couch design documents need to be deployed with admin
+permissions. There are two ways of doing this:
+ * rake couchrest:migrate_with_proxies
+ * dump the documents as files with `rake couchrest:dump` and deploy them
+   to the couch by hand or with puppet.
+
+#### CouchRest::Migrate ####
+
+The before_script block in .travis.yml illustrates how to do this:
+
+```bash
+mv test/config/couchdb.yml config/couchdb.yml
+mv test/config/couchdb.admin.yml config/couchdb.admin.yml
+bundle exec rake db:rotate          # create dbs
+bundle exec rake couchrest:migrate  # run migrations
+```
+
+#### Deploy design docs from CouchRest::Dump ####
+
+First of all we get the design docs as files:
+
+```bash
+# put design docs in /tmp/design
+bundle exec rake couchrest:dump
+```
+
+Then we add them to files/design in the site_couchdb module in leap_platform
+so they get deployed with the couch. You could also upload them using curl or
+sth. similar.