04 Nov
Scriptify your Django deployments using Fabric
Anyone who has worked on a decent size product where Django is serving as the web front, understands how monotonous the update / deployment procedure gets. Especially, when you have more than a couple of servers serving your user base. And if you are one of the companies who have embraced the cloud computing platform (Amazon Web Services), then you already have an appreciation for the problem.
Fabric is one such tool that helps in solving that problem.
Fabric is a tool that, at its core, logs into a number of hosts with SSH, and executes a set of commands, and possibly uploads or downloads files.
Check out Will Larsen’s post on how you can use Fabric. He has done a great job of explaining it.
