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 noteable features:

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

[buildout]
extends =
    https://raw.github.com/starzel/buildout/4.3.3/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 (statictics)
gitlab (code-repo and code-review)
redmine (ticket-system and wiki)