[Chicago] deploying django apps, first steps for newbie

[Chris Sinchok]

Maybe try using fpm <https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/>? I've used it to
package up entire venvs using the
"dir<https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/Source:-dir>"
option, but you can also use python packages as a source:
https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki/ConvertingPython


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Cezar Jenkins <emperorcezar at gmail.com>wrote:

> On November 20, 2013 at 10:46:50 AM, sheila miguez (shekay at pobox.com<//shekay at pobox.com>)
> wrote:
>
> Okay, let's say I have a site in production that is somewhat organized
> according to this excellent blog post, <
> http://michal.karzynski.pl/blog/2013/06/09/django-nginx-gunicorn-virtualenv-supervisor/
> >.
>
> For every new release, I could write something that fetches a tarball from
> github for the release, makes a new virtualenv specific to that release,
> and untars the repo following the convention in that blog post. I would
> keep some number of old virtualenvs around for a while. That's my newbie
> idea, and I'd like to know what best practices are for this kind of stuff.
>
> This is starting to be a good practice. It’s more important as your
> virtualenv grows. Check out the python buildpack from Heroku
> https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python
>
>
>
> More newbie questions:
>
> worse practices
> * how bad is it that I pip install things that require compiling on my
> production box (psycopg2 for example)?
>
> Not bad, everyone does it.
>
>
> * how bad is it to install git on my production box?
>
> Unless you have a large infrastructure, most of the time your deploy
> script will run on the box and fetch using git.
>
>
>
> Eventually I think I'll set up my own pypi. I think I could also try and
> figure out how to make packages for things like psycopg2 so I don't need to
> compile them. (assuming there is some reason I wouldn't want to use a
> distro's package? is there?)
>
> Python Wheel packages can do this, but they are reasonably new and I’ve
> never used them for anything serious.
>
>
>
>
> --
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