Buildout II: Getting Ready for Deployment

The starzel buildout

Have a look at the buildout we use for our projects: https://github.com/starzel/buildout

It has some notable features:

It extends to files on github shared by all projects of the same version

[buildout]
extends =
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starzel/buildout/5.0b2/linkto/base.cfg

Minimal work to setup a new project
Presets for development, testing, staging and production

A deployment setup

zeoserver and zeoclients
haproxy
nagios
varnish
monitoring
supervisor
backup
logrotate
precompiler
cronjobs

Other tools we use

Fabric (manage sites)
Sentry (error monitoring)
Ansible (manage and setup servers and tools)
Nagios (server monitoring)
jenkins (tests)
piwik (statistics)
gitlab (code repo and code review)
redmine (ticket system and wiki)