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@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active April 19, 2025 17:31 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@trey
trey / django_fixtures.md
Created May 28, 2012 11:50
Use Django Fixtures to Automatically Load Data when You Install an App

Use Django Fixtures to Automatically Load Data when You Install an App

First, load some data via the admin that should always be there when someone installs the app.

Next, dump that data out into JSON format into a fixture:

$ ./manage.py dumpdata [app_name] > [app_name]/fixtures/initial_data.json
@robbles
robbles / virtualenv-auto-activate.sh
Last active November 7, 2023 14:01 — forked from codysoyland/virtualenv-auto-activate.sh
virtualenv-auto-activate with support for zsh and virtualenvwrapper
#!/bin/bash
# virtualenv-auto-activate.sh
#
# Installation:
# Add this line to your .bashrc or .bash-profile:
#
# source /path/to/virtualenv-auto-activate.sh
#
# Go to your project folder, run "virtualenv .venv", so your project folder
# has a .venv folder at the top level, next to your version control directory.
@numan
numan / autoscaling_boto.py
Created July 17, 2011 00:42
Example of setting up AWS auto scaling using boto API
"""
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2011 Numan Sachwani
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:
@numan
numan / lb_boto.py
Created July 16, 2011 21:29
Create a load balancer using the boto API
from boto.ec2.elb import ELBConnection
from boto.ec2.elb import HealthCheck
conn_elb = ELBConnection(AWS_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY)
#For a complete list of options see http://boto.cloudhackers.com/ref/ec2.html#module-boto.ec2.elb.healthcheck
hc = HealthCheck('healthCheck',
interval=20,
target='HTTP:80/index.html',
@numan
numan / sp_boto.py
Created July 16, 2011 17:45
Setting up a scaling policy using boto
#For a complete list of options see http://boto.cloudhackers.com/ref/ec2.html#boto.ec2.autoscale.policy.ScalingPolicy
scalingUpPolicy = ScalingPolicy(name='webserverScaleUpPolicy',
adjustment_type='ChangeInCapacity',
as_name='webserver-asg',
scaling_adjustment=2,
cooldown=180)
scalingDownPolicy = ScalingPolicy(name='webserverScaleDownPolicy',
adjustment_type='ChangeInCapacity',
as_name='webserver-asg',
@numan
numan / asg_boto.py
Created July 14, 2011 16:20
create an auto scaling group
#For a complete list of options see http://boto.cloudhackers.com/ref/ec2.html#boto.ec2.autoscale.group.AutoScalingGroup
ag = AutoScalingGroup(group_name='webserver-asg', load_balancers=['my-lb'],
availability_zones=['us-east-1a','us-east-1b', 'us-east-1c'],
launch_config='my-launch-config-name', min_size=2, max_size=20)
conn_as.create_auto_scaling_group(ag)
@numan
numan / lc_boto.py
Created July 13, 2011 21:43
Setting up a launch configuration using boto
from boto.ec2.autoscale import AutoScaleConnection
from boto.ec2.autoscale import LaunchConfiguration
conn_as = AutoScaleConnection(AWS_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY)
#For a complete list of options see http://boto.cloudhackers.com/ref/ec2.html#boto.ec2.autoscale.launchconfig.LaunchConfiguration
lc = LaunchConfiguration(name='my-launch-config-name', image_id='ami-123456',
key_name='webserver-access-key',
security_groups=['webserver-security-group'],
instance_type='t1.micro',
@michiel
michiel / cors-nginx.conf
Created July 5, 2011 10:41
Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
# Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
location / {
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
#
@liamf
liamf / autoscale_sample
Created May 6, 2011 12:05
Demonstrates using patched boto to create an autoscaling group of servers, scaled up/down by CPU Utilisation
#################################################################################
# Import modules
#################################################################################
import os
import time
import sys
import socket
import string