Starting, deploying and maintaining Plone 4 projects made easy

zopeskel.niteoweb is collection of ZopeSkel templates to help you standardize and automate the task of starting, deploying and maintaining a new Plone project. Its particularly helpful for less experienced Plone developers as they can get a properly structured and deployed Plone 4 project in no time. A complete tutorial on how to use these templates for your own projects is at http://ploneboutique.com.

It will help you to automate and standardize:

• Starting a new Plone 4 project that includes old- and new-style python, zope page template and css overrides, collective.xdv, etc.
• Adding your own functionalities and look to Plone 4.
• Staging and deploying your Plone 4 project on Rackspace Cloud server instance running CentOS, with Nginx in front and secured with iptables firewall (only $11 per month per instance!)
• Maintaining and upgrading your Plone 4 project on the production server.

By default the Plone 4 project you create with these templates is equiped with:

• latest collective.xdv with sample rules.xml and template.html,
• .svnignore files to ignore files/folders that should not be stored inside your code repository,
• base.cfg that holds global configuration for your buildout,
• versions.cfg that pins all your eggs to specific versions to ensure repeatability,
• development.cfg that builds a development environment,
• production.cfg that builds a production environment with ZEO,
• sphinx.cfg that is used to generate documentation for your code,
• test_setup.py that shows you how to write tests for your project,
• fabfile.py with Fabric commands to automatically deploy your code and data to a Rackspace Cloud server instance running CentOS,
• Sphinx documentation for your project,
• nginx.conf template to setup the Nginx web-proxy in front of your Zope,
• basic iptables configuration to deny access on all ports but the ones you actually use,
• munin-node.conf template to setup Munin system monitor node on your production server,
• and much more.

Installation

Installation is simple, just run 'sudo easy_install zopeskel.niteoweb' and you're good to go. Go where? To http://ploneboutique.com.

Assumptions

Out-of-the-box, this package is intended for NiteoWeb's internal projects. However, at http://ploneboutique.com you'll find a comprehensive guide on how to use these templates for your own projects.

To do

• add munin plugins for Zope and Nginx
• audit iptables
• audit sudoers
• audit sshd_config
• yum-security email notification
• per-version separation of documentation on packages.python.org
• test coverage plugin for Hudson
• properify version extraction in conf.py
• add docstrings to Fabric commands

Contributors

• Nejc 'zupo' Zupan, NiteoWeb Ltd.
• Domen 'iElectric' Kozar, NiteoWeb Ltd.