[Chicago] deploying django apps, first steps for newbie

[Yarko Tymciurak]

I am all for virtualenv for developing apps packages, or devel where you
don't have a deployment target in mind.

Otherwise a virtual box cofigured with the target machine, and the
development tree network mounted from your host is a scalable,
distributeable solution, and a small step to deploying to the same
environment.

edx is moving to doing this with ansible, and its a nice way to include /
test other services & dbs.
See the wiki pages at github.com/edx/configuration

Vagrant & a vm are your friend.
 On Nov 20, 2013 11:23 AM, "sheila miguez" <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Andy Boyle <andymboyle at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sheila, have you ever used Fabric?
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> Hi!
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> Not yet. My next step after figuring out what I want to have happen when I
> deploy things (like deciding whether I should run my own pypi, make
> completely new virtualenvs, etc.) is to decide on an automated
> config/deploy framework. One friend from ps1 suggested using puppet or salt
> if I have less than 100 boxes to worry about, chef if I had more.
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> To be honest, I only have one for now, and I am probably overthinking
> things due to my last job. On the other hand, the automation stuff will
> serve as documentation for myself 6 months later when I forget something,
> or for someone new who comes on.
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>> As for installing git on your production environment, that's what we use
>> to deploy our projects, so I'm not sure why it'd necessarily be a bad thing
>> to have. I'd love to hear someone's arguments to the contrary.
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> I was trying to imagine some bad scenarios. sometimes gets partial access
> to things enough to do stuff with git or a compiler and then screws up
> everything. Though I suppose if they can compromise things enough to do
> that, they could probably sudo apt-get stuff. Though I don't have the user
> account the app runs under in the sudo group.
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> Just trying to think of bad crap. When I got my last job I tried to
> imagine how a defect might lead to someone's death. In an earlier job, a
> defect could likely lead to someone's death much easier than that job, so
> it became an interesting thought experiment. QA people are superheros who
> save us from horrible death and destruction.
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>> Good luck!
>> -Andy
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> sheila
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