buildout

Buildout is a deployment automation tool written in and extended with Python

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Buildout is a project designed to solve 2 problems:

  1. Application-centric assembly and deployment

    Assembly runs the gamut from stitching together libraries to
    create a running program, to production deployment configuration of
    applications, and associated systems and tools (e.g. run-control
    scripts, cron jobs, logs, service registration, etc.).

    Buildout might be confused with build tools like make or ant, but
    it is a little higher level and might invoke systems like make or
    ant to get its work done.

    Buildout might be confused with systems like puppet or chef, but it
    is more application focused. Systems like puppet or chef might
    use buildout to get their work done.

    Buildout is also somewhat Python-centric, even though it can be
    used to assemble and deploy non-python applications. It has some
    special features for assembling Python programs. It’s scripted with
    Python, unlike, say puppet or chef, which are scripted with Ruby.

  2. Repeatable assembly of programs from Python software distributions

    Buildout puts great effort toward making program assembly a highly
    repeatable process, whether in a very open-ended development mode,
    where dependency versions aren’t locked down, or in a deployment
    environment where dependency versions are fully specified. You
    should be able to check buildout into a VCS and later check it out.
    Two checkouts built at the same time in the same environment should
    always give the same result, regardless of their history. Among
    other things, after a buildout, all dependencies should be at the
    most recent version consistent with any version specifications
    expressed in the buildout.

    Buildout supports applications consisting of multiple programs,
    with different programs in an application free to use different
    versions of Python distributions. This is in contrast with a
    Python installation (real or virtual), where, for any given
    distribution, there can only be one installed.

To learn more about buildout, including how to use it, see
http://docs.buildout.org/.