python fabric collection

This is a loose collection of set up bash scripts and fabric scripts that will get increasingly organized over time.

Goals

The purpose is to automate the provisioning of a new server instance in a vendor-agnostic manner. So whether you are using Amazon EC2, Linode.com, Rackspace.com or Voxel.net, this set of fabric scripts should work exactly as advertised.

The immediate goals are:

1. Automated selection of the optimal open source library mirror from the distro's mirror list
2. Automated installation of common base packages, such as sudo, git-core, vim, tmux and htop
3. Automated configuration of the root user's .bash_profile and the .bash configuration files in /etc/skel so new users subsequently created will inherit the configuration templates
4. Optional creation of linux users so other developers in the team each has a corresponding linux user account with sudo rights
5. Automated set up of python virtualenv, python (2.7), django and postgresql environment.
6. Support for deployment and rollback for a staging server ('development')
7. Support for deployment and rollback for a production server ('production')

Secondary goals for webserver set up support

1. Cherokee
2. Nginx
3. Apache2

The longer term goal is to support the automated set-up of various linux distros in a vagrant vm or in a remote; beginning with arch linux and hopefully debian, ubuntu and gentoo soon.

Usage

Once you have launched your new server instance(s) with your server provider, add in the following settings in django's settings.py:

import os

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
PROJECT_NAME = os.path.dirname(PROJECT_ROOT).split('/').pop()
PROJECT_SITES = {
	'production': {
    	'NAME': 'www.myserver.com',
    	'IP': 'whateveryourprodserverip',
	},
'development': {
    	'NAME': 'dev.myserver.com',
    	'IP': 'whateveryourdevserverip',
	}
}

Placing the fabfile.py in your django project root, you can now run a command such as:

fab server_setup:root,dev

And when you are ready to deploy your django site, run:

fab deploy:dev