Sessions at EuroPython 2011 about Fabric

Tuesday 21st June 2011

• Advanced Aspects of the Django Ecosystem: Haystack, Celery & Fabric

  by Simon Willison

  Django benefits from a thriving third-party ecosystem. This talk will take a deep look at three of the components I have found most useful in my own projects: Haystack for full-text search, Celery for offline processing and Fabric for automated deployments. I'll discuss how we use them for Lanyrd.com, and demonstrate why they deserve a permanent place in your toolbox.

  • Celery
  • Django
  • Django Haystack
  • Fabric
  • Lanyrd

  At 2:30pm to 3:30pm, Tuesday 21st June

  Coverage slide deck video

Thursday 23rd June 2011

• Deploying web applications to the cloud with Python

  by Nate Aune

  How can Python help you deploy web applications to the cloud? Amazon EC2 provides virtual machines on demand but as a developer you still have to configure these machines and push your code to them. Fabric is a Python library that lets you execute commands on a remote machine, and Boto is a Python library for interfacing with Amazon web services. By using Fabric and Boto, you can easily create repeatable deployments and provision new resources as needed with minimal effort.

  This talk will introduce Amazon Web Services and how to launch new machines using simple Boto scripts, and how to get started making your own repeatable deployments using Fabric scripts.

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Cloud
  • Deployment
  • Fabric
  • Python

  At 2:30pm to 3:30pm, Thursday 23rd June

  Coverage video