Life Cycle of Grok Applications

Contents:

• The lifecycle of a Grok application
  • Step by step
  • Starting development of a new application
  • Developing with a team and version control
  • Running buildout
  • Make a release
  • Creating a local package index
  • Specifying search paths for development eggs
  • Namespace packages
  • Extending buildout with new recipies
  • Adding scripts to the bin directory using entry points
  • Upgrading your buildout.cfg
  • Setting up a production environment and installing the first release
  • Starting the application from a @reboot crontab entry
  • Apache config
  • Install an upgrade
  • Rollback an upgrade
  • Administration of a Grok application
  • What to backup
• Selecting the port and interface where Grok listens
• Install Grok on MS Windows
  • Procedure
  • Reporting issues
• Placing your Grok project under version control
  • Backing up your live application data
• Profiling with Grok
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing a profiler
  • Start Profiling
  • Profiling mass requests
  • Turning the Data into a Graph
• Eggs, Known Good Sets and developing with unreleased Grok source code
  • Eggs and Versions
  • Known Good Sets
  • Managing eggs with zc.buildout
  • Trail blazing (working with unreleased eggs)
  • Developing with a development.cfg file
• How to pack your ZODB database
• Graphical debugging of Grok with Komodo IDE
• Grok, Virtual Hosting and Nginx
• Grok and Apache
  • Virtual hosting (mod_wsgi)
  • Virtual hosting (mod_rewrite/mod_proxy)
  • Virtual hosting (general)
• Releasing software
• Using Virtualenv for a clean Grok installation
  • Benefits of Using Virtualenv
  • What you need
  • Creating a new Python sandbox
  • Further information
• Install multiple Grok apps using zc.buildout
  • Before you start
  • Install a Grok application using zc.buildout
  • Sharing Eggs: Installing multiple Grok applications
  • Faster, buildout, faster!
  • Keeping bootstrap.py close at hand
• Use Apache HTTP server with Grok (on Debian Sid)
  • Apache on Debian Sid - Using Apache HTTP server with our Grok web application
  • Steps involved:
  • Step One: Apache Installation
  • Step Two: Apache Configuration
• Legal stuff
  • Licenses, Fair Use and Friends
  • Licenses
  • Code from others on svn.zope.org
  • Code on svn.zope.org
  • Appendix: files, headers, forms
• Set custom configurations on a system level that your application can use
  • Purpose
  • Step by step
  • Further information