Hey Eduardo,

I should have taken more notes but my recollection is as follows:

Bad things with respect to digital ocean:

- the "one click" django ubuntu image install did not work for me at all.
- the django ubuntu digital ocean tutorial did not help with the databases 
and was pretty unnecessary because you can skip to the mezzanine installer
- The postgres ubuntu tutorial was not so clear with respect to django; had 
to study the postgres site to get a handle on "roles" etc. Even then I had 
to do a lot of direct manipulation of roles and passwords to get the 
database working 
- the nginx / gunicorn tutorial was only partially integrated with the 
above; this also required a lot of guess work, I ended up reading several 
other sites. 

it was good for me to read the other sites but that indicates the tutorial 
is unclear.

Good things:
- the ssh certificate tutorial, well written
- the mezzanine installer worked very well
- pip, etc. of course

The thing I ended up doing, which I strongly recommend, is to delete the 
digital ocean image and start the installation over every time it doesn't 
work.  Trying to undo a mistake in configuration is much worse than 
starting from scratch. Eventually it will work.

Now that its running, I haven't touched the underlying setup, so that is 
excellent. 

Open questions:

- I haven't segmented our site in to a production / development server yet
- The overall security tutorial is opaque though I have done most of the 
things it recommends

Hope this helps!





On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 5:49:55 PM UTC-7, Eduardo Rivas wrote:
>
> Hey Adam, Sri. 
>
> I helped build the current deployment mechanism, and am curious about 
> your experience with it. Specifically, I would like to hear what would 
> you like to see in a definitive tutorial, or what we can do to 
> streamline the process. 
>
> Looking forward to your comments. 
>

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