Best Fabric scripts for Django

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Lee picture Lee · Jun 16, 2011 · Viewed 18.7k times · Source

What are the best stock Fabric scripts for deploying a typical Django project? Fabric looks very good, but seems to require you to start from scratch and write your own deployment script. Coming from Capistrano, I'd like to start with something that works more out-of-the-box that others have tested rather than writing one from scratch.

Ideally I'd like one that syncs the database, performs migrations using South, backs up the site and database, and can roll back previous deploys.

Answer

Evan Porter picture Evan Porter · Jun 16, 2011

Since everyone's environment is different, most Fabric scripts are going to be different from each other. So a "stock" Fabric script for anything will likely never exist.

Fabric allows you to easily create your own. A couple links I found useful are:

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