Deployment instructions

Requisites:

• Python 2.7 (2.6 should work but it’s untested)
• PostgreSQL 9.1+ (tested on 9.4 but older 9.x versions should do)
• Redis (any recent version should do; tested on 2.8.17)

Steps:

• Create a PostgreSQL database for jobcontrol

• Install jobcontrol in a virtualenv:

  virtualenv jobcontrol
  pip install jobcontrol
  

• Write a configuration file

• Create database tables:

  jobcontrol-cli --config-file path/to/conf.yaml install
  

• Launch the webapp:

  jobcontrol-cli --config-file path/to/conf.yaml web --port 5050
  

• Start redis server:

  redis-server
  

• Launch the celery worker:

  jobcontrol-cli --config-file path/to/conf.yaml worker
  

• Visit http://127.0.0.1:5050

• Enjoy!

todo

• Give some better details for production deployment, eg.