Available commands and how to use them

Commands are separated into two grops:

• Project: commands for setting up and managing Plone/Python projects
• Server: commands for setting up and managing servers

Project commands

niteoweb.fabfile.project.configure_nginx(shortname=None)

Upload Nginx configuration for this site to /etc/nginx/sites-available and enable it so it gets included in the main nginx.conf.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.download_code(shortname=None, prod_user=None, svn_params=None, svn_url=None, svn_repo=None, svn_dir=None)

Pull project code from code repository.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.download_data()

Download Zope’s Data.fs from the server.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.enable_nginx_config(shortname=None)

Make a link from sites-available/ to sites-enabled/ and reload Nginx.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.prepare_buildout(prod_user=None, python_version=None, production_cfg=None)

Prepare zc.buildout environment so we can use bin/buildout -c production.cfg to build a production environment.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.run_buildout(prod_user=None, production_cfg=None)

Run bin/buildout -c production.cfg in production user’s home folder on the production server.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.start_supervisord(prod_user=None)

Start supervisord process monitor which in turn starts Zope and optionally others (Varnish, HAProxy, etc.).

niteoweb.fabfile.project.supervisorctl(*cmd)

Runs an arbitrary supervisorctl command.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.upload_blobs(prod_user=None, path=None)

Upload BLOB part of Zope’s data to the server.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.upload_data(prod_user=None)

Upload Zope’s data to the server.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.upload_nginx_config(shortname=None, nginx_conf=None)

Upload Nginx configuration to /etc/nginx/sites-available.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.upload_sphinx(hq_ip=None, sphinx_dir=None, path=None)

Uploads HTML files generated by Sphinx.

niteoweb.fabfile.project.upload_zodb(prod_user=None, path=None)

Upload ZODB part of Zope’s data to the server.

Server commands

niteoweb.fabfile.server.add_to_bacula_master(shortname=None, path=None, bacula_host_string=None)

Add this server’s Bacula client configuration to Bacula master.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.configure_bacula_client(path=None)

Upload configuration for Bacula File Deamon (client) and restart it.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.configure_bacula_master(path=None)

Upload configuration files for Bacula Master.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.configure_egg_cache()

Configure a system-wide egg-cache so we have a local cache of eggs that we use in order to add speed and reduncancy to zc.buildout.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.configure_hetzner_backup(duplicityfilelist=None, duplicitysh=None)

Hetzner gives us 100GB of backup storage. Let’s use it with Duplicity to backup the whole disk.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.configure_nginx(nginx_conf=None)

Upload Nginx configuration and restart Nginx so this configuration takes effect.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.configure_postgres()

Upload Postgres configuration from etc/ and restart the server.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.configure_racoon(racoonconf=None, psktxt=None)

Upload racoon configuration files and restart the service.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.configure_ufw(rules=None)

Configure Uncomplicated Firewall.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.create_admin_account(admin, default_password=None)

Create an account for an admin to use to access the server.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.create_admin_accounts(admins=None, default_password=None)

Create admin accounts, so admins can access the server.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.create_project_user(prod_user)

Add a user for a single project so the entire project can run under this user.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.create_projects_group()

Create a group that will hold all project users -> users that are dedicated for running one project.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.disable_root_login()

Disable root login for even more security. Access to root account is now possible by first connecting with your dedicated maintenance account and then running sudo su -.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.generate_selfsigned_ssl(hostname=None)

Generate self-signed SSL certificates and provide them to Nginx.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.harden_sshd()

Security harden sshd.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.initialize_postgres()

Initialize the main database.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_bacula_client()

Install and configure Bacula backup client, which listens for instructions from Bacula master and backups critical data when told to do so.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_bacula_master()

Install and configure Bacula Master.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_ipsec(racoonconf=None, psktxt=None, server_ip=None)

Install and configure IPsec server.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_java()

Install java from webupd8 repository.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_munin_node(add_to_master=True)

Install and configure Munin node, which gathers system information and sends it to Munin master.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_mysql(default_password=None)

Install MySQL database server.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_nginx(nginx_conf=None)

Install and configure Nginx webserver.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_php()

Install FastCGI interface for running PHP scripts via Nginx.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_postgres()

Install and configure Postgresql database server.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_python_24()

Install Python 2.4 and tools for it.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_python_26()

Install Python 2.6 and tools for it.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_python_27()

Install Python 2.7 and tools for it.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_rkhunter(email=None)

Install and configure RootKit Hunter.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_sendmail(email=None)

Prepare a localhost SMTP server for sending out system notifications to admins.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_system_libs(additional_libs=None)

Install a bunch of stuff we need for normal operation such as gcc, rsync, vim, libpng, etc.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_ufw(rules=None)

Install and configure Uncomplicated Firewall.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.install_unattended_upgrades(email=None)

Configure Ubuntu to automatically install security updates.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.normalize_rackspace()

docstring for normalize_rackspace

niteoweb.fabfile.server.raid_monitoring(email=None)

Configure monitoring of our RAID-1 field. If anything goes wrong, send an email!

niteoweb.fabfile.server.set_hostname(server_ip=None, hostname=None)

Set server’s hostname.

niteoweb.fabfile.server.set_system_time(timezone=None)

Set timezone and install ntp to keep time accurate.