"A grunt task to automate moving files to/from Amazon S3."

"Every development project, no matter how complex, should have a repeatable, predictable (preferably scripted) new developer project bootstrap."

Very early days.

"A framework for packaging, deploying and provisioning applications", based on Vagrant, by LShift.

Back to basics; handy.

"A step-by-step rundown on how to set up a solid Agile process for coding, testing, and deploying via the cloud." with MikeCI and Codesion

Fairly hardcore.

"DevOps is hard, we can help. Simple and automated development environments. Experiment, collaborate and deploy with confidence. From $7 per month."

"The best solution would be to build linked clones. A linked clone is a copy of a virtual machine that shares virtual disks with the parent virtual machine in an ongoing manner. This conserves disk space, and allows multiple virtual machines to use the same software installation. It also means we’ll be able to run the two VMs simultaneously."

"We’ve found that one of the easiest ways to allow people to change the database is by using version-controlled SQL delta scripts. We’ve also found it beneficial to ensure that the scripts used to build development environments are the exact same used in QA, UAT and production. Maintaining and making use of these deltas can quickly become a significant overhead – dbdeploy aims to address this."

Mmmm.

"Why web applications are different to installed apps, problems that none of the revision control systems solve, and how you can solve some of them yourself within your app."

"Having a reliable and easy deployment should be non-negotiable. It’s a metric I’ve come to call the “quantum of deployment”: what’s the smallest number of steps, with the smallest number of people and the smallest amount of ceremony required to get new code running on your servers? This isn’t a trivial question." Great deployment stuff from Etsy.

"All deployments need to be automated. No ad-hoc, one-off deployments allowed. If you do allow them, they can quickly snowball into an unmaintainable, unreproducible mess."

Code and configuration used in [Jacob Kaplan-Moss'] Django Deployment Workshop.

"Capistrano’s power is in its remoting features. You tell it what to do on that other server, and it does it. Beauty. So, if your PHP deployment process requires an svn export combined with a few other repetitive steps you have to do every time, Capistrano is here to help you too."

Early days but looks promising. "I have decided to use cpython as platform, django as web framework for the server and Fabric as library to automate the task execution."

"Aims to provide an easy to setup continuous integration server and client. The server side infrastructure is built on top of django. The tasks are described using fabric."

"A brief talk about getting started with automating deployment [...] nice and simple and [doesn't] focus on any specific technology or tool – just the general principles and pitfalls of doing anything manually."

"There’s plenty of material (documentation, blogs, books) out there that’ll help you write a site using Django… but then what? You’ve still got to test, deploy, monitor, and tune the site; failure at deployment time means all your beautiful code is for naught. This tutorial examines how best to cope when the Real World intrudes on your carefully designed website."

"A Python library and command-line tool designed to streamline deploying applications or performing system administration tasks via the SSH protocol. It provides tools for running arbitrary shell commands (either as a normal login user, or via sudo), uploading and downloading files, and so forth."

"A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure."

More on continuous deployment.

"The high level of our process is dead simple: Continuously integrate (commit early and often). On commit automatically run all tests. If the tests pass deploy to the cluster. If the deploy succeeds, repeat." Blimey.

"The BitNami DjangoStack is an installer that greatly simplifies the installation of Django and its runtime dependencies. It includes ready-to-run versions of Python, Django, MySQL and Apache. DjangoStack is distributed for free under the Apache 2.0 license. "

"In this article I’ll share my experience for installing on this server Django with Apache mod_python, with memcached caching and lighttpd for serving static files."

"SwitchPipe manages and forwards HTTP requests to Web application processes, automatically managing balancing, port numbers, monitoring and timeouts."

Pragmatic application deployment automation, without mercy.

"Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information."

"Capistrano is a standalone utility that can also integrate nicely with Rails. You simply provide Capistrano with a deployment “recipe” that describes your various servers and their roles, and voila! You magically have single-command deployment."

"A tool for automating tasks on one or more remote servers. It executes commands in parallel on all targeted machines, and provides a mechanism for rolling back changes across multiple machines."