Using inigo.templer for deploying Plone

inigo.templer aids you in quickly setting up your Zope/Plone infrastructure by providing you a pre-configured skeleton to work with. Functionalities provided by inigo.templer includes:

• A skeleton template for a deployment buildout
• A skeleton template for writing Plone addon products
• A skeleton template for writing Plone themes

Setting up a buildout for inigo.templer

So, lets setup a buildout for inigo.templer. First, you will need to create our working directory. In this example, we will be using ~/inigo.templer as our working directory.

Now, let initialize the working directory and populate it with the most important component of a buildout, which is, the bootstrapper by running these commands:

mkdir ~/inigo.templer
cd ~/inigo.templer
wget http://downloads.buildout.org/2/bootstrap.py -O bootstrap.py

Afterwards, create the initial buildout.cfg for installing inigo.templer:

[buildout]
develop = .
parts = scripts
versions = versions
newest = true

[scripts]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs =
    templer.core
    templer.buildout
    templer.plone
    inigo.templer
    zest.releaser

Lets buildout!:

/opt/python26/bin/python bootstrap.py
./bin/buildout -vvv

Once the build process is done, you should get a script called templer in the bin/ directory. We will be using this script later to create our deployment buildout.

Introducing the inigo_buildout templer template

inigo.templer provides a template called inigo_buildout which will generate a base buildout for deploying Plone. The buildout have been preconfigured with functionalities such as:

• Separate buildout configuration for development and production use
• Automatically generated sample configuration for HAProxy and Varnish
• Single Zope instance deployment for development use
• Dual Zope instance + single ZEO instance deployment for production use