NOTE: This is tailored for the twined project structure, it probably won't work too well without customization on other project bootstraps.

pip install -e git://github.com/twined/glue.git#egg=glue-dev

Add glue to INSTALLED_APPS in your conf/settings.py

GLUE keeps its config in a GLUE_SETTINGS dictionary, which you can override in your settings file. A couple of settings are mandatory, so this is the minimal config:

# glue settings
GLUE_SETTINGS = {
    'ssh_user': 'username',
    'ssh_host': 'host.net',
    'ssh_port': 30000,
    'prod': {
        'db_pass': 'prod_password',
    },
    'staging': {
        'db_pass': 'staging_password',
    }
}

Take a look at glue/settings.py for the complete settings dict.

GLUE needs to access your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment var, you can set it in your virtualenv's postactivate hook:

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=yourproject.path.to.settings

The postactivate hook can be found in your virtualenv's bin/ dir.

./manage.py build_fabfile > filename

creates a fabfile.py named filename.