[Distutils] buildouts upgrades in production
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Thu Dec 13 00:52:06 CET 2007
On Dec 11, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> We are happily using zc.buildout to deploy our Python softwares
> (mainly zope) in production.
Cool.
> The offline mode is very helpfull to create a media with a prepared
> buildout to deploy the thing on a server that has no web access
> (this is most of the time the case i guess)
Are you aware of zc.sourcerelease?
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.sourcerelease
This automates creating buildout-based self-contained source releases
that are installed without network access. These source releases can
also be used as the basis for system packaging. We use them with a
trivial spec file to create RPMs.
> Now I am working on the best ways to prepare upgrades for the
> production and I try to find a way to avoid recreating a big tarball
> again just for a few changes.
IMO, the benefit doesn't justify the extra complexity. IMO,
deployments should involve as little thought and thus risk as
possible. Our RPMs typically install in a few seconds, which is fast
enough for me. :)
> My guess is that a snapshot of the download-cache and eggs directory
> is enough, so a diff can be made to "upgrade" a production server
> with a tarball of the two directories and the new .cfg
>
> But I was wondering if someone had similar experiences already, and
> maybe a simple, better way ?
There are ways to use a download cache to speed creation of a source
release. If you're interested, I could expand on this.
Jim
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