toppcloud

Edward O’Connor
Django San Diego

“The Cloud” & Python

local development & remote deployment

Google App Engine

intentionally-limited platform

portability cost (exit)

We want the ease-of-use benefits of GAE without the lock-in costs of GAE

A new way to deploy web applications

toppcloud

built on libcloud

libcloud

• Creates and destroys VPSes
• Brings up Ubuntu config on said VPSes
• Deploys WSGI apps to said VPSes

EC2 (US & West, EU West), GoGrid, Linode, Slicehost, Rackspace, RimuHosting, Terremark, vCloud, Voxel, & VPS.net

toppcloud is opinionated, not agnostic

just Jaunty

PostgreSQL & PostGIS

… or CouchDB

toppcloud and django

$DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE

toppcloud create-node

Creates a new VPS

toppcloud setup-node

Configure said VPS with your deps

toppcloud init path/to/app/

toppcloud serve path/to/app/

Run local dev server

toppcloud update –host=test.example.com path/to/app/

Update remote instance of app

toppcloud run test.example.com script.py

Run an app script on sever

PyCon keynote

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