Deploying web applications to the cloud with Python

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Shows how boto + fabric launch, configure and deploy a full Django stack so a single command like fab full_system creates frontend, app and DB nodes with tagged roles, security groups and elastic IPs in minutes. Uses cloud-init user-data to inject SSH keys, installs role-specific packages, runs migrations and optionally reinstalls pip deps. Persists data with EBS snapshots and keeps rollbacks, quick updates and automated, repeatable deployments; contrasts push-based Fabric with declarative tools like Chef/Puppet.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:46HOSTING AND DEPLOYMENT CHALLENGES
3. 4:30TRADITIONAL HOSTING VS. AMAZON AWS
4. 6:30AMAZON INFRASTRUCTURE
5. 10:52MAKING AN EC2 CONNECTION
6. 12:22LAUNCHING AN INSTANCE
7. 13:04INSPECT RUNNING INSTANCE
8. 13:58INSPECT SECURITY GROUPS
9. 14:41CREATE SECURITY GROUP FOR APP SERVER
10. 17:10AUTHORIZE SSH FROM ANY MACHINE
11. 18:45SIMPLE FABRIC EXAMPLE
12. 19:27EXAMPLE OUTPUT
13. 20:15FAILURE HANDLING
14. 20:58EXECUTE COMMANDS ON REMOTE SERVER
15. 22:02HANDLE FIRST DEPLOYS TOO
16. 23:07DEFINING CONNECTIONS BEFOREHAND
17. 24:57WHAT IS DJANGOZOOM?
18. 27:03ONE-CLICK TO RE-DEPLOY
19. 27:41WHY REPEATABLE DEPLOYMENTS?
20. 29:58FABFILEPY FOR DJANGOZOOM
21. 30:31DB NODE SET UP
22. 30:57LAUNCH STEPS
23. 31:37CREATE NODE
24. 32:18KEY PAIR
25. 33:01CREATE SECURITY GROUPS
26. 33:20AUTHORIZE INTERNAL TRAFFIC AND OPEN PORTS
27. 33:40ASSIGN ELASTIC IPS
28. 34:56SETUP DB NODE
29. 35:14GET PACKAGES FOR ROLE
30. 35:45INSTALL UBUNTU PACKAGES ON THE SERVER
31. 36:28SETUP POSTGRESOL
32. 37:05CREATE DATABASE
33. 38:36INTERACTIVE QUICK UPDATE
34. 39:28QUICK UPDATE CONTINUED
35. 40:26DEPLOY TO BUILD SERVER
36. 41:08OTHER TOOLS TO INVESTIGATE
37. 43:17OTHER CLOUD PROVIDERS
38. 44:43QUESTIONS?

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