Torchbox.com — hosts and deployment¶
The VM comes preinstalled with Fabric, Heroku CLI and AWS CLI.
Deployed environments¶
| Environment | Branch | URL | Heroku |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production | master |
e.g. https://torchbox.com | e.g. projectname-production |
| Staging | staging |
e.g. https://torchbox-staging.herokuapp.com | e.g. projectname-staging |
Login to Heroku¶
Please log in to Heroku before executing any commands for servers hosted there.
Connect to the shell¶
To open the shell of the servers.
fab staging-shell
fab production-shell
Scheduled tasks¶
When you set up a server you should make sure the following scheduled tasks are set.
django-admin publish_scheduled_pages- every 10 minutes or more often. This is necessary to make publishing scheduled pages work.django-admin clearsessions- once a day (not necessary, but useful).django-admin update_index- once a day (not necessary, but useful to make sure the search index stays intact).
Deployment¶
To deploy, merge your feature branch to master or staging branch. Once CI pipelines have passed, it will be deployed to the respective Heroku site automatically.
This is done via Heroku Github integration. You can view the progress of the deployment by logging into Heroku, navigating to the app's dashboard and checking the "Activity" section.