Devops

(Very scketchy for now).

Principles

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/>