At EnergySavvy we use a combination of Fabric and Chef.
Chef is fantastic for setting up the server and environment (virtualenv, uwsgi,
nginx, databases, etc) but isn't quite the right tool for deployment - it can be
heavyweight with abstractions that don't really make sense. Never mind having to
write Ruby to make it go.
Fabric is great as a lightweight layer to build your deployment system on. We've
followed some of the patterns Capistrano does (individual release directories,
symlinks) and have had a great system over the past few years.
I don't know what your needs are around the CMS - but if they're not super
proprietary, I highly recommend taking a look at Mezzanine -
http://mezzanine.jupo.org/
In addition there's also a Django Seattle group that covers a lot of these
issues and has a number of people with significant expertise in running and
deploying Django - http://www.djangoseattle.org/
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--Leo
Toby Champion wrote:
I'd recommend using Fabric over Chef if your application is in Python.
That's because you can use your application code, either some of the
Django project itself or your libraries, from within Fabric. I've found
this useful for testing and diagnostics. I've used it recently for
throwing fake data at an XMPP server, by using a library that's used by
the Django app directly from Fabric. You can do this sort of thing by
writing Django management commands, but for quick and dirty work (often
required of start-ups), it's easier from Fabric.
Also, it's one less language to be programming in every day.
Toby
On 6/13/12 1:53 PM, Adam Feuer wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, karen<[email protected]> wrote:
There's Paste, which
doesn't sound ideal.....what else should I be looking at?
It's not Python, but it's really good for this: Chef
http://www.opscode.com/chef/
It has a good community and a lot of pre-built recipes (scripts). I've
used Fabric and Chef, I count those big advantages over Fabric.
More info:
http://www.opscode.com/blog/2011/05/23/deploy-django-cms-with-chef/
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Build+a+Django+Stack
-adam
