fabtools includes useful functions to help you write your Fabric files.
fabtools makes it easier to manage system users, packages, databases, etc.
fabtools includes a number of low-level actions, as well as a higher level interface called fabtools.require.
Using fabtools.require allows you to use a more declarative style, similar to Chef or Puppet.
To install the latest release from PyPI
$ pip install fabtoolsTo install the latest development version from GitHub
$ pip install git+git://github.com/ronnix/fabtools.gitHere is an example fabfile.py using fabtools
from fabric.api import *
from fabtools import require
import fabtools
@task
def setup():
# Require some Debian/Ubuntu packages
require.deb.packages([
'imagemagick',
'libxml2-dev',
])
# Require a Python package
with fabtools.python.virtualenv('/home/myuser/env'):
require.python.package('pyramid')
# Require an email server
require.postfix.server('example.com')
# Require a PostgreSQL server
require.postgres.server()
require.postgres.user('myuser', 's3cr3tp4ssw0rd')
require.postgres.database('myappsdb', 'myuser')
# Require a supervisor process for our app
require.supervisor.process('myapp',
command='/home/myuser/env/bin/gunicorn_paster /home/myuser/env/myapp/production.ini',
directory='/home/myuser/env/myapp',
user='myuser'
)
# Require an nginx server proxying to our app
require.nginx.proxied_site('example.com',
docroot='/home/myuser/env/myapp/myapp/public',
proxy_url='http://127.0.0.1:8888'
)
# Setup a daily cron task
fabtools.cron.add_daily('maintenance', 'myuser', 'my_script.py')fabtools currently supports the following target operating systems:
- Debian 6.0 (squeeze)
- Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)
- Ubuntu 12.04 (precise)
- RHEL 5/6
- CentOS 5/6
- Scientific Linux 5/6
- SmartOS (Joyent)
Contributions to help support other Unix/Linux distributions are welcome!