Django App Server Beta (v13.3)

Published by RightScale on Mar 06, 2013Revision: 47

Description

This is a Beta ServerTemplate since it has only recently been released and has not yet had heavy usage. Please provide feedback at our feedback forums or file support tickets on our support site.

This ServerTemplate is on the Infinity Lineage. There is no LTS version of the ServerTemplate yet. For a description of the Infinity and LTS lineages, see ServerTemplate Release Methodology.

This ServerTemplate configures a Django application server for Apache using mod_wsgi. It is designed to work in a hybrid cloud setting, and with a CLB, ELB, or Load Balancer ServerTemplate and Database ServerTemplate as part of a three-tier web architecture. It also includes iptables management for clouds that do not have firewall services.

Key Features:

Firewall management within a three-tier scalable web architecture
Utilizes RightScale tag-based routing for connecting to load balancers
Pulls application code from an external repository (Git, SVN, or cloud storage)

Related ServerTemplates:
Load Balancer with HAProxy
Database Manager for MySQL 5.5

Release Notes:
Django App Server Release Notes

Application versions:

Django 1.4
Python 2.6
MySQL Client (5.1 or 5.5)

Supported public compute clouds:

Amazon Web Services EC2
Datapipe
Google Compute Engine
HP Cloud
IDC Frontier
Logicworks
Rackspace First Generation
Rackspace Open Cloud
SoftLayer
Windows Azure

Supported private compute clouds:

Citrix CloudStack (2.2.14 and 3.0.6)
OpenStack Folsom
Rackspace Private Cloud

Supported MultiCloud Images:

CentOS 6 - Amazon, Google, CloudStack, Datapipe, HP, IDC Frontier, Logicworks, OpenStack, Rackspace, Rackspace Open Cloud, SoftLayer, Windows Azure
Ubuntu 12.04 - Amazon, Google, CloudStack, Datapipe, HP, IDC Frontier, Logicworks, OpenStack, Rackspace, Rackspace Open Cloud, SoftLayer, Windows Azure
RHEL 6 - Amazon

Cookbook Repo: git://github.com/rightscale/cookbooks.git of RightScale (v13.3)
Cookbook Repo: git://github.com/rightscale/rightscale_cookbooks.git of RightScale (v13.3)
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_12.04_x64_v5.8_HVM_EBS [rev 7]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8_KVM [rev 13]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8_VMWare [rev 10]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8_XenServer [rev 11]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_RHEL_6.3_x64_v5.8 [rev 5]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_12.04_x64_v5.8 [rev 26]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_12.04_x64_v5.8_EBS [rev 8]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8_HVM_EBS [rev 6]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_12.04_x64_v5.8_KVM [rev 8]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_12.04_x64_v5.8_VMWare [rev 10]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_Ubuntu_12.04_x64_v5.8_XenServer [rev 12]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8_EBS [rev 7]
MultiCloudImage: SoftLayerImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8 [rev 3]
MultiCloudImage: SoftLayerImage_Storage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8 [rev 3]
MultiCloudImage: SoftLayerImage_Storage_Ubuntu_12.04_x64_v5.8 [rev 3]
MultiCloudImage: SoftLayerImage_Ubuntu_12.04_x64_v5.8 [rev 3]
MultiCloudImage: RightImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8 [rev 35]
Recipe: app::setup_vhost
Recipe: app::do_server_start
Recipe: app::do_server_stop
Recipe: app::do_update_code
Recipe: app::handle_loadbalancers_allow
Recipe: app::handle_loadbalancers_deny
Recipe: app::install_server
Recipe: app::setup_db_connection
Recipe: app::do_server_restart
Recipe: app_django::run_custom_django_commands
Recipe: app_django::setup_server_1_4
Recipe: block_device::setup_ephemeral
Recipe: db::default
Recipe: db::request_appserver_allow
Recipe: db::request_appserver_deny
Recipe: app::do_loadbalancers_allow
Recipe: web_apache::setup_monitoring
Recipe: lb::default
Recipe: web_apache::do_enable_maintenance_mode
Recipe: lb::do_detach_request
Recipe: logging::default
Recipe: repo::default
Recipe: rightscale::default
Recipe: rightscale::install_tools
Recipe: sys::do_reconverge_list_disable
Recipe: sys::do_reconverge_list_enable
Recipe: sys::setup_swap
Recipe: sys_firewall::default
Recipe: sys_firewall::do_list_rules
Recipe: sys_firewall::setup_rule
Recipe: sys_ntp::default
Recipe: web_apache::default
Recipe: web_apache::do_disable_maintenance_mode
Recipe: lb::do_attach_request
RepoPath: RightScale (v13.3) [rev 156]