Hi Everyone,
In the past there have been some discussionh about how to deploy Django web
applications through SSH. How to use Fabric or other tools, and whether we
should provide or maybe force users to deploy applications according to a
certain conventions.
Back then, maybe already more than a year ago, I said that I was working on
my own deployment tool. [1] Something that could be used instead of Fabric.
It's a tool which could probably help a lot of you, although it can take a
while to adopt. The core consists of high quality code. I took me a while
before I felt confident enough for releasing this, and it has been
refactored more then any project I did before. Things still can be
improved, but it's ready to share with you.
Key features are:
- Interactive execution of remote commands. Locally, they will appear in
a pseudo terminal (created with openpty), so that even editors like Vim or
Emacs works fine when you run them on the remote end. You can easy start an
interactive shell on any host as well.
- Reusability of all deployment code is a key point. It's as declarative
as possible, but without loosing Python's power to express everything as
dynamic as you'd like to. Deployment code is hierarchically structured,
with inheritance where possible.
- Parallel execution is easy when enabled, while keeping interaction
with these remote processes possible through pseudoterminals. Every
parallel task gets his own terminal, either a new xterm or gnome-terminal
window, a tmux pane, or whatever you'd like to.
- Logging of your deployments. New loggers are easily pluggable into the
system.
So, enjoy!
So, what does it have to do with Django? I have a setup-definition of what
we use for Django deployment [2]. However, I suppose that quite a lot of
people aren't using uwsgi like us. So, I'd like to know what the most
common use cases of Django deployment are. If I can cover most cases, it's
very easy for end-users to pick one, override what they don't like, and
enjoy the full power of this deployment system.
For instance, to demonstrate the power. If we want to connect to a Django
shell_plus of our Mobile Vikings production system, we type in the
interactive shell:
> mobile_vikings django shell_plus
This will call the shell_plus function of our django setup, it will ask on
which host the shell needs to be started, and immediately fire an
interactive shell_plus of the remote server in your terminal.
[1] https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-deployer
[2]
https://github.com/citylive/citylive-operations/blob/master/deployment/deployer/contrib/services/django.py
I'll publish one of these days on pypi.
All feedback is welcome. For bugs/feature requests on things which arn't
Django related, please go to the github.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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