Deployment is one of the most talked about issues in the Python web application community. Every development shop comes up with their own approach, pieced together with experience and blog posts.

Fabric is often mentioned as the Python alternative to the code deploy tool Capistrano, but there are many more Capistrano plugins and extensions than Fabfiles. One reason for this is a lack of standard application layouts (i.e. where is the WSGI application, the Javascript files, list of dependencies, etc.). What if there were a standard convention for organizing and deploying small- to medium-sized applications? We are open-sourcing the configuration we use at Bueda for building and deploying Django and Tornado web applications. There are four related projects that make up the release:

python-webapp-etc - Config files for tools to deploy Python webapps

buedafab (a.k.a. “ops”) - A collection of Fabric commands for deployment

django-boilerplate - A standard layout for Django apps

tornado-boilerplate - A standard layout for Tornado apps

I will let the documentation of each individual repository speak for itself. Ideas, comments and contributions are welcome - we hope to come to a community consensus on good standard practice.