Automating Plone Deployment

Note

This training is meant to be used in a course or read and worked through by an individual user. Instructors should note that this makes it more discursive than it would be if it was only meant for classroom use. Many sections may be zipped through in a class, noting to students that the full text is available for review.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Our big choices
• Intro to Plone Stack
• Intro to Ansible
  • Installation
  • Ansible basics
    • Connecting to remote machines
    • Inventories
  • Playbooks
    • Quick intro to YAML
    • Quick intro to Jinja2
    • Playbook structure
• The Plone Playbook
  • Currently supported platforms
  • Quick review of contents
    • Playbooks
    • roles
    • Vagrant
    • Sample configurations
    • Tests
• Basic use of the playbook
  • Local configuration file
    • Use with Vagrant
    • Run against cloud
  • Smoke test
  • Diagnosing ssh connection failures
  • Running the playbook
  • Firewalling
• In operation
  • Plone setup and directories
  • Restart script
  • Client logs
  • cron jobs
  • Load balancing
  • Reverse-proxy caching
  • Web hosting
  • Postfix
  • Updating system packages
  • fail2ban
  • Monitoring
  • Changes philosophy
• More customized use
  • Common customization points
    • Plone setup
    • Web hosting options
    • Mail relay
    • Bypassing components
  • Multiple Plones per host
• The Plone Role – using it independently
• Maintenance strategies
  • Virtualenv
  • What belongs to the playbook and what doesn’t
  • Git forks
• Maintenance strategies – multiple hosts

See also

http://docs.plone.org/manage/deploying/

OpsWorks

Orchestrating Plone Deployments with Amazon OpsWorks

Using Amazon Opsworks to orchestrate clusters for scalable/high availablity deployments.