Basic Django deployment with virtualenv, fabric, pip and rsync

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:46:37 +0000

Deployment is usually a tedious process with lots of tinkering until everything is setup just right. We deploy quite a few Django sites on a regular basis here at Caktus and still do tinkering, but we've attempted to functionalize some of the core tasks to ease the process. I've put together a basic example that outlines local and remote environment setup. This is a simplified example and just one of many ways to deploy a Django project (I learned a lot from Jacob Kaplan-Moss' django-deployment-workshop), so I encourage you to browse around the Django community to learn more. The entire source for this example project can be found in the caktus-deployment Bitbucket repository.

Seamlessly switch off (and on) a Django (or other WSGI) site for upgrades

Mon, 25 May 2009 19:53:18 +0000

In preparation for migrating the EveryWatt database from one machine to another, I wrote this little WSGI script to easily disable the site while I copy the data. Since it doesn't depend on Django or really anything else (other than a functioning WSGI server), you can use it for other upgrades, too.

Wsgi on Caktus Group

Basic Django deployment with virtualenv, fabric, pip and rsync

Seamlessly switch off (and on) a Django (or other WSGI) site for upgrades