django-orchestra/README.md

![](orchestra/static/orchestra/icons/Emblem-important.png)  **This project is in early development stage**

Django Orchestra
================

Orchestra is a Django-based framework for building web hosting control panels.

* [Documentation](http://django-orchestra.readthedocs.org/)
* [Install and upgrade](INSTALL.md)
* [Roadmap](ROADMAP.md)


Motivation
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There are a lot of widely used open source hosting control panels, however, none of them seems apropiate when you already have an existing service infrastructure or simply you want your services to run on a particular architecture.

The goal of this project is to provide the tools for easily build a fully featured control panel that is not tied to any particular service architecture.


Overview
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Django-orchestra is mostly a bunch of [plugable applications](orchestra/apps) providing common functionalities, like service management, resource monitoring or billing.

The admin interface relies on [Django Admin](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/), but enhaced with [Django Admin Tools](https://bitbucket.org/izi/django-admin-tools) and [Django Fluent Dashboard](https://github.com/edoburu/django-fluent-dashboard). [Django REST Framework](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/) is used for the REST API, with it you can build your client-side custom user interface.

Every app is [reusable](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/reusable-apps/), this means that you can add any Orchestra application into your Django project `INSTALLED_APPS` strigh away.
However, Orchestra also provides glue, tools and patterns that you may find very convinient to use. Checkout the [documentation](http://django-orchestra.readthedocs.org/) if you want to know more.

![](docs/images/index-screenshot.png)

Fast Deployment Setup
---------------------
This deployment is not suitable for production but more than enough for checking out this project.

```bash
# Create and activate a Python virtualenv
python3 -mvenv env-django-orchestra
source env-django-orchestra/bin/activate

# Install Orchestra and its dependencies
pip3 install django-orchestra==dev \
  --allow-external django-orchestra \
  --allow-unverified django-orchestra
# The only non-pip required dependency for runing pip install is python3-dev
#   sudo apt-get install python3.4-dev
pip3 install -r \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glic3rinu/django-orchestra/master/requirements.txt

# Create a new Orchestra site
orchestra-admin startproject panel
python3 panel/manage.py migrate
python3 panel/manage.py runserver

# Enable periodic tasks with cron (optional)
python3 panel/manage.py setupcronbeat
python3 panel/manage.py syncperiodictasks
```

Now you can see the web interface on http://localhost:8000/admin


Checkout the steps for other deployments: [development](INSTALLDEV.md), [production](INSTALL.md)


License
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Copyright (c) 2014 - Marc Aymerich and individual contributors.
All Rights Reserved.

Django-orchestra is licensed under The BSD License (3 Clause, also known as
the new BSD license). The license is an OSI approved Open Source
license and is GPL-compatible(1).

The license text can also be found here:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

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* Neither the name of Marc Aymerich, nor the
  names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
  derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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