Real World Django Deployment with Chef

Presented by Noah Kantrowitz

Getting started with chef

• Resources

  • type
  • name
  • parameters
  • takes actions
  • can send notifications

• Recipes

  • A collection of resources
  • Recipes are evaluated for resources in the order they appear.
  • Can include other recipes
  • Dynamic configuration through search
  • Can be extended through Ruby scripting

• Roles

  • describe nodes
  • holds a list of recipes

• Cookbooks are collections of recipes

• Environments are pegged cookbook versions

Python-specific tools

• python::package, python::source – install python
• python::pip, python::virtualenv – make it dance
• gunicorn::default, gunicorn_config
• supervisor::default, supervisor_service

Note

https://github.com/coderanger/djangocon2011

Note

http://pydanny-event-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/DjangoCon2011/deploy-via-chef.html