django-orchestra-test/INSTALL.md

Installation

Django-orchestra ships with a set of management commands for automating some of the installation steps.

These commands are meant to be run within a clean Debian-like distribution, you should be specially careful while following this guide on a customized system.

Django-orchestra can be installed on any Linux system, however it is strongly recommended to chose the reference platform for your deployment (Debian 7.0 wheezy and Python 2.7).

1. Create a system user for running Orchestra

   adduser orchestra
   # not required but it will be very handy
   sudo adduser orchestra sudo
   su - orchestra
   

2. Install django-orchestra's source code

   sudo apt-get install python-pip
   sudo pip install django-orchestra # ==dev if you want the in-devel version
   

3. Install requirements

   sudo orchestra-admin install_requirements
   

4. Create a new project

   cd ~orchestra
   orchestra-admin startproject <project_name> # e.g. panel
   cd <project_name>
   

5. Create and configure a Postgres database

   sudo python manage.py setuppostgres --db_password <password>
   python manage.py syncdb
   python manage.py migrate
   

6. Configure celeryd

   sudo python manage.py setupcelery --username orchestra
   

7. Configure the web server:

   python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
   sudo apt-get install nginx-full uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python
   sudo python manage.py setupnginx
   

8. Start all services:

   sudo python manage.py startservices
   

Upgrade

To upgrade your Orchestra installation to the last release you can use upgradeorchestra management command. Before rolling the upgrade it is strongly recommended to check the release notes.

sudo python manage.py upgradeorchestra

Current in development version (master branch) can be installed by

sudo python manage.py upgradeorchestra dev

Additionally the following command can be used in order to determine the currently installed version:

python manage.py orchestraversion

Extra

1. Generate a passwordless ssh key for orchestra user ssh-keygen

2. Copy this key to all servers orchestra will manage, including itself is neccessary ssh-copy-id root@