django-orchestra/INSTALL.md

Installation

Django-orchestra ships with a set of management commands for automating some of the installation steps.

These commands are meant to be run within a clean Debian-like distribution, you should be specially careful while following this guide on a customized system.

Django-orchestra can be installed on any Linux system, however it is strongly recommended to chose the reference platform for your deployment (Debian 8.0 jessie and Python 3.4).

1. Create a system user for running Orchestra

   adduser orchestra
   # not required but it will be very handy
   sudo adduser orchestra sudo
   su - orchestra
   

2. Install django-orchestra's source code

   sudo apt-get install python3-pip
   sudo pip install django-orchestra==dev
   

3. Install requirements

   sudo orchestra-admin install_requirements
   

4. Create a new project

   cd ~orchestra
   orchestra-admin startproject <project_name> # e.g. panel
   cd <project_name>
   

5. Create and configure a Postgres database

   sudo apt-get install python3-psycopg2 postgresql
   sudo python3 manage.py setuppostgres --db_password <password>
   # admin_tools needs accounts and does not have migrations
   python3 manage.py migrate accounts
   python3 manage.py migrate
   

6. See the Django deployment checklist

   python3 panel/manage.py check --deploy
   

7. Configure periodic execution of tasks (choose one)

   1. Use cron

      python3 manage.py setupcronbeat
      python3 panel/manage.py syncperiodictasks
      

   2. Use celeryd

      sudo apt-get install rabbitmq
      sudo python3 manage.py setupcelery --username orchestra
      

8. Configure the web server:

   python3 manage.py collectstatic --noinput
   sudo apt-get install nginx-full uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python3
   sudo python3 manage.py setupnginx --user orchestra
   

9. Start all services:

   sudo python manage.py startservices
   

Upgrade

To upgrade your Orchestra installation to the last release you can use upgradeorchestra management command. Before rolling the upgrade it is strongly recommended to check the release notes.

sudo python3 manage.py upgradeorchestra

Current in development version (master branch) can be installed by

sudo python3 manage.py upgradeorchestra dev

Additionally the following command can be used in order to determine the currently installed version:

python3 manage.py orchestraversion

Extra

1. Generate a passwordless ssh key for orchestra user ssh-keygen

2. Copy this key to all servers orchestra will manage, including itself is neccessary ssh-copy-id root@