Adventurer in the Land of Production Environment

If your background is software development, the first time you need to run code on a server and serve it to the world can be pretty intimidating. Just as if you suddenly found yourself in a strange land, full of magic and composed of dungeons…

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1. Adventurer in the Land of Production Environment Maciej Pasternacki <maciej@3ofcoins.net> DjangoCon 2013 Circus Edition 3ofcoins @mpasternacki
2. e weather is mild and comfortable. A slight wind is blowing. A server. $ _
3. e weather is mild and comfortable. A slight wind is blowing. A server. $ sudo su - # _
4. e weather is mild and comfortable. A slight wind is blowing. A server. $ sudo su - # screen # _
5. e weather is mild and comfortable. A slight wind is blowing. A server. $ sudo su - # screen # ./manage.py runserver 80 _
6. e weather is mild and comfortable. A slight wind is blowing. A server. $ sudo su - # screen # ./manage.py runserver 80 [detached] $ _
7. Congratulations! You advance to level 1. $ sudo su - # screen # ./manage.py runserver 80 [detached] $ _
8. Quest: is it up? – http://pingdom.com/ – http://host-tracker.com/ – http://monitor.us/ – …lots of alternatives. Use whichever.
9. Examine inventory # ./manage.py runserver 80 Runs as root: -33 Strength Single-threaded: -10 Dexterity Static files served by Django: -15 Speed
10. Use XP to upgrade: gunicorn fcgi uwsgi mod_wsgi nginx lighttpd apache +5 Mana +8 Dexterity http://raingna.deviantart.com/art/FiM-style-Django-pony-318540512 Static les Not root, high port #
11. Congratulations! You advance to level 2
12. Put on some armor – Isolate your code in virtualenv – Get Immune to Surprise Upgrades: pip freeze or vendor libraries
13. Amulet of Life Saving – runit – supervisord – daemontools – upstart – systemd – monit – god – bluepill
14. Stun Immunity – runit – cron @reboot – upstart – init script – systemd
15. Congratulations! You advance to level 3
16. Teleport Control –Fabric –Capistrano –Mina –Git-deploy
17. Acquire skill: Alchemy – Plain Old Shell ScrollsScripts –     devstructure/blueprint – Chef, Puppet – Ansible
18. Congratulations! You advance to level 4
19. e Final Boss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
20. e Final Boss: Gear Up! – Chef/Puppet – MCollective/Salt – Rundeck – Nagios Icinga – Graphite – Statsd – Logstash
21. Beyond the map – High Availability – Resiliency – Autoscaling – Self-healing Need a guide, sir? http://3ofcoins.net/ maciej@3ofcoins.net