devops.rst

Devops

(Very scketchy for now).

Principles

• <https://12factor.net/>
• <http://www.clearlytech.com/2014/01/04/12-factor-apps-plain-english/>

Note: we're not yet 12 factor compatible, actually, due to our reliance on local file storage. This will probably be fixed in 2017.

• <https://zachholman.com/posts/deploying-software>

Tools

• Fabric
• Invoke <https://github.com/pyinvoke/invoke>
• Docker
• Vagrant (for dev, not prod)

• to investogate:

• <http://platter.pocoo.org/dev/>
• <http://pythonhosted.org/fapistrano/>

Platforms

• Heroku (for playing purposes)
• Dokku (open source Heroku alternative,
• Kubernetes
• Or plain old "a la mano" deployment (using Fabric, Invoke...) using nginx as a front-end web server and either gunicorn (currently preferred) or uwsgi as application server, with supervisord for process management.

Monitoring, etc.

• Sentry / getsentry
• <http://uptimerobot.com/>