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Django Orchestra

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

• Documentation
• Install and upgrade
• Roadmap

Motivation

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

Django-orchestra is mostly a bunch of plugable applications providing common functionalities, like service management, resource monitoring or billing.

The admin interface relies on Django Admin, but enhaced with Django Admin Tools and Django Fluent Dashboard. Django REST Framework is used for the REST API, with it you can build your client-side custom user interface.

Every app is reusable, 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 if you want to know more.

Fast Deployment Setup

To only run the web interface follow these steps:

# 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
sudo apt-get install python3.4-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcrack2-dev
pip3 install -r \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glic3rinu/django-orchestra/master/requirements.txt

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

None of the services will work but you can see the web interface on http://localhost:8000/admin

Development and Testing Setup

If you are planing to do some development or perhaps just checking out this project, you may want to consider doing it under the following setup

1. Create a basic LXC container, start it and get inside.

   wget -O /tmp/create.sh \
     https://raw.github.com/glic3rinu/django-orchestra/master/scripts/container/create.sh
   sudo bash /tmp/create.sh
   sudo lxc-start -n orchestra
   # root/root
   

2. Deploy Django-orchestra development environment inside the container

   # Make sure your container is connected to the Internet
   # Probably you will have to configure the NAT first:
   #   sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s `container_ip` -j MASQUERADE
   wget -O /tmp/deploy.sh \
     https://raw.github.com/glic3rinu/django-orchestra/master/scripts/container/deploy.sh
   cd /tmp/ # Moving away from /root before running deploy.sh
   bash /tmp/deploy.sh
   

   Django-orchestra source code should be now under ~orchestra/django-orchestra and an Orchestra instance called panel under ~orchestra/panel

3. Nginx should be serving on port 80, but Django's development server can be used as well:

   su - orchestra
   cd panel
   python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8888
   

4. A convenient practice can be mounting ~orchestra on your host machine so you can code with your favourite IDE, sshfs can be used for that

   # On your host
   mkdir ~<user>/orchestra
   sshfs orchestra@<container-ip>: ~<user>/orchestra
   

5. To upgrade to current master just re-run the deploy script

   sudo ~orchestra/django-orchestra/scripts/container/deploy.sh
   

License

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

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• 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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