Automatically deploying assets to Rackspace CDN via git and updating references to those assets?

Question

I'm looking for some help in designing a strategy to automate deployment of a web application's assets (images, css, js) to Rackspace's Cloud Files (CDN) service.

I currently use git push to deploy the web app to a remote server. So here's one way I'm thinking this could happen. Are there any better/cleaner methods?

• Dev makes changes to an asset file (css, js, or an image)
• Dev commits his changes
• Dev pushes his changes to the server
• Assets are automatically renamed to eliminate cache issues (append git version?) and sent to the CDN
• Referencing code would be automatically updated to new filename

FYI, this is a PHP app in CodeIgniter 2.x if it matters.

Happy to hear any ideas, alternative or not.

Answer 1

I've not found anything to automatically do it.

You can use the Rack Space Cloud File API ( http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/api/ ) to upload files to Rackspace's CDN aware containers.