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# Buildout II: Getting Ready for Deployment

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## The Starzel buildout

Have a look at the buildout some of the trainers use for their projects: <https://github.com/starzel/buildout>

It has some notable features:

- It extends to config- and version-files on github shared by all projects that use the same version of Plone:

  ```cfg
  [buildout]
  extends =
      https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starzel/buildout/5.1.2/linkto/base.cfg
  ```

- It allows to update a project simply by changing the version it extends.

- It allows to update all projects of one version by changing remote files (very useful for HotFixes).

- It is minimal work to setup a new project.

- It has presets for development, testing, staging and production.

- It has all the nice development-helpers we use.

Another noteable buildout to look for inspiration:

- <https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw-buildouts>

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## A deployment setup

A 'normal' deployment setup could look like this:

```text
ZEO-Server   ->   ZEO-Server (ZRS)

   / | \

ZEO Clients (as many as you want)

   \ | /

Load balancer (nginx or haproxy)

     |

   Cache (varnish)

     |

Webserver (nginx)
```

Deploying Plone and production-setups are outside the scope for this training.

```{seealso}
- <https://5.docs.plone.org/manage/deploying/index.html>
- {doc}`../deployment/index`
```

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## Other tools we use

There are plenty of tools that make developing and managing sites much easier. Here are only some of the ones you might want to check out:

- Fabric (managing sites)
- Sentry (error monitoring)
- Ansible (managing and provisioning machines)
- Greylog, ELK (logging)
- Nagios, Zabbix (server monitoring)
- jenkins, gitlab-ci, travis, [drone.io](https://www.drone.io/) (Continuous Integration)
- piwik (statistics)
- gitlab (code repository and code review)
- redmine, taiga, assembla (project-management and ticket-system)