This is the fifth and last part of the django deploy environment, you may find the fourth part here.

In this part we'll see how to automate the deployment using fabric.

What the hell have fabric to do?

Well, fabric have to do all the work for me in the sense that once I've done some changes to my project and pushed them to the bare repository I want to update the production environment with only one command. I'd like also to setup initially the whole environment with only one command.

How does it work?

First of all install it, so with the virtualenv activated:

$ pip install fabric

Done.

Now reading from the official site:

Fabric is a Python (2.5 or higher) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting ...

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Ok, this is the second part of the django deploy environment, you may find the first part here.

In the prevoius post we have seen how to install nginx webserver an some system packages, both in locale and remote, now it's time to start our developement in locale.

Let's create a new virtualenv

The use of virtualenv is incredibly comfortable and lets you keep separated environment for different projects. So first of all create a new virtualenv in the place you prefer

$ mkdir ~/virtualenv
$ cd ~/virtualenv
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages myproject

Done, now we can activate the virtualenv so that every new python package will be installed in it, so

$ source ~/virtualenv/myproject/bin/activate

MySQL as the database server

Why MySQL? Only because I'm easy with it, I know its syntax, I'm accustomed with it and because I use it at work.
But, since the role of mysql in the whole deploy structure finishes here, you may want to use a different db server, more efficient, lightweight and which uses less system resources

In the first post ...

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