Simon Willison’s Weblog

Bees with machine guns! Low-cost, distributed load-testing using EC2. Great name for a useful project—Bees with machine guns is a Fabric script which fires up a bunch of EC2 instances, uses them to load test a website and then spins them back down again.

# 27th October 2010, 11:04 pm / ec2, fabric, performance, scaling, recovered, load-testing

Automated deployments with Fabric—tips and tricks. “If it’s not in a Fabric fabfile, it’s not deployable”—I’m slowly applying this philosophy to my personal projects.

# 16th March 2010, 11:19 am / deployment, fabric, python, sysadmin

Fabric 0.9.0. A Python-based SSH automation and deployment tool. Released today, 0.9.0 is finally the official “stable” release—which is good, as it breaks API compatibility with previous versions and caused me all sorts of confusion when I tried to learn Fabric recently.

# 9th November 2009, 2:02 pm / deployment, fabric, python, ssh

Fabric factory. Promising looking continuous integration server written in Django, which uses Fabric scripts to define actions.

# 21st September 2009, 6:35 pm / continuous-integration, django, fabric, fabricfactory, python, testing

Automating web site deployment at Barcamp Brighton. I’m determined to start using Fabric and proper deployment scripts for my personal projects.

# 6th September 2009, 2:16 pm / barcamp, barcampbrighton, deployment, fabric, gareth-rushgrove

NASA NEBULA Services (via) NASA’s new NEBULA cloud computing platform appears to be built entirely on open source infrastructure, including Python, Django, Fabric, Eucalyptus, RabbitMQ, Trac and Solr.

# 28th July 2009, 12:10 pm / cloud-computing, django, eucalyptus, fabric, nasa, nebula, open-source, python, rabbitmq, solr, trac

Fabric, Django, Git, Apache, mod_wsgi, virtualenv and pip deployment. I’m slowly working my way through this stack at the moment—next stop, fabric.

# 28th July 2009, 11:56 am / apache, deployment, django, fabric, gareth-rushgrove, git, modwsgi, pip, python, virtualenv

Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip. Ashamed to say I’m not using any of these yet—for Django projects, my manage.py inserts an “ext” directory at the beginning of the Python path which contains my dependencies for that project.

# 9th July 2009, 11:40 am / deployment, django, fabric, pip, python, pythonpath, tools, virtualenv