http://chriskief.com/2012/12/15/creating-a-custom-django-server-on-rightscale/

install.sh

#!/bin/bash -e

#
# Test for a reboot,  if this is a reboot just skip this script.
#
if test "$RS_REBOOT" = "true" ; then
  echo "Skip software update on reboot."
  logger -t RightScale "Software update, skipped on a reboot."
  exit 0
fi

#
# install and upgrade a bunch of stuff
#
if [ $RS_DISTRO = ubuntu ]; then
  # fix sftp issue
  perl -p -i -e "s/\/usr\/libexec/\/usr\/lib/g" /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  service ssh restart

  # upgrade pip
  yes | pip install --upgrade pip

  # after updating pip, need to relink it so do_update_code works
  ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip

  # install this for pip
  apt-get install -y libyaml-dev

  # install these for compressor
  apt-get install -y default-jre
  apt-get install -y npm
  npm install -g less
  npm install -g coffee-script
  gem install sass

  # link these so compress can find them
  ln -s /usr/local/bin/lessc /usr/bin/lessc
  ln -s /usr/local/bin/sass /usr/bin/sass
  ln -s /usr/local/bin/coffee /usr/bin/coffee

  # install Django beta
  yes | pip uninstall Django
  wget https://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.5b2/tarball/
  mv index.html Django-1.5b2.tar.gz
  tar xzvf Django-1.5b2.tar.gz
  cd Django-1.5b2
  python setup.py install
  cd ../
  rm -rf Django-1.5b2
  rm Django-1.5b2.tar.gz

  # install pip packages
  yes | pip install --upgrade distribute
  yes | pip install --upgrade MySQL-python
  yes | pip install django-compressor
  yes | pip install django-appconf
  yes | pip install versiontools
  yes | pip install --upgrade simplejson
  yes | pip install "BeautifulSoup<4.0"
  STATIC_DEPS=true
  yes | sudo pip install lxml
  yes | pip install odict
  yes | pip install ply
  yes | pip install html5lib
  yes | pip install httplib2
  yes | pip install slimit
  yes | pip install boto
  yes | pip install oauth2
  yes | pip install python-openid
  yes | pip install PyYAML
  yes | pip install pytz
  yes | pip install py-bcrypt
  yes | pip install yolk

  # cleanup simplejson (fixes yolk)
  rm /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson-2.3.2.egg-info

  # remove generated wsgi.py in site root
  rm /home/webapps/$APPLICATION/wsgi.py

  # update apache config
  perl -p -i -e "s/$APPLICATION\/wsgi.py/$APPLICATION\/conf\/wsgi.py/g" /etc/apache2/sites-available/http-80-localhost.vhost.conf

  # copy and compress assets
  python /home/webapps/$APPLICATION/manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i css -i js
  python /home/webapps/$APPLICATION/manage.py compress

  # restart apache
  service apache2 restart
fi

logger -t RightScale "Software update completed."