Hi Tim, Take a look at Fabric: http://www.nongnu.org/fab/. Fabric is a pythonic deployment tool, somewhat like Capistrano, that gets quite a bit of attention from Django users. It might be interesting for your needs.
Regards, David Hund - http://valuedstandards.com PS: Newby-question: Is there a reason we should post/reply in English? Tim Molendijk sounds like a Dutch name and this is a Dutch list, no? :-) On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, <python-nl-requ...@python.org> wrote: [snip..] > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 02:30:09 +0100 > From: "Tim Molendijk" <t...@timmolendijk.nl> > Subject: [python-nl] Python web app deployment > Hi all, > > I need some advice and experiences on building and deployment of web > apps in Python (and Django). > > We at PromoBee.nl are nearing the release of our new web app. It will > be installed on a fresh server install, which makes for a nice > opportunity to rethink our build and deployment process. Up to this > point we solved deployment with some custom shell scripts and a lot of > manual work. Since I (obviously) do not want to go down this road > again I have done some research lately and although I have come up > with some ideas it appears to me that there is no 'common best > approach'. > > My current considerations: > Since the server will run Debian I really like the idea of using > Debian packages for installing and updating the web app and its > libraries. I don't have any experience with building my own packages > but I figure it should be a feasible approach. Then how am I going to > build these packages? I have taken a look at Ant, but I'm afraid to > end up in Java- or XML-hell. Also, since our app is a Python app, I > feel there should be a tool that is better suited for the job. I > considered Distutils, but I am not sure whether it's capable of > everything I need. Our app has a fairly simple architecture and its > deployment is quite straight-forward, but at least I want to be able > to do stuff like checking out code from source control and automated > concatenation and minification of JavaScript files. Also I have been > looking at zc.buildout, but I find it hard to get a grasp of what it > can and cannot do. In addition to that; I am not confident that either > Distutils or zc.buildout will get along easily with the concept of > Debian packages. > > Well, all in all a lot of question marks here. Since the problem is so > common I figured many people here must have dealt with it as well. I'm > really curious about how you solved it. > > Thanks in advance for any tips, cheers! > > Tim _______________________________________________ Python-nl mailing list Python-nl@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nl
