This is a quick and dirty script to satisfy the requirements I had for quickly deploying a meteor app. Note: I quickly generalized the script I am currently using to create this, there may be typos, errors, etc but this is the general idea of what has worked for me.

There is also a fabric command to dump and fetch the remote mongo database which has proved useful to recreate production data when debugging issues.

Note: this script assumes you have Meteorite installed. Change the mrt commands to meteor if you are not using Meteorite!

Install python, install fabric via pip, copy fabfile.py to the root of your meteor app. Edit the settings at the top of fabfile.py.

List commands

$ fab help

Deploy app

$ fab deploy

Restart forever process

$ fab restart_app

Fetch a dump of the app's mongo db

$ fab get_mongo_dump
$ tar -xvf dump.tar.gz
$ mongorestore

Pull requests welcomed, there are most likely better ways of doing these actions but this worked for my simple needs.