Chapter 6. From Development to Deployment
This chapter covers end-to-end software deployment of a Python-based web application. It will also introduce you to some common cookbooks and how to put them all together to create a fully automated deployment mechanism.
We will walk through the following topics:
- Configuring your local settings to work with AWS
- Modeling a simple
web.pyapplication with Chef - Installing the cookbooks you need
- Provisioning EC2 instances for web and DB servers
- Defining your roles
- Adding users to hosts
- Installing the required software
- Configuring an application using Chef
- Deploying the application
Describing the setup
From a high level, here is what needs to happen in order to take an application that we have developed from a desktop to ...
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