What do I need to know/learn for automated python deployment?
You already mentioned buildout, and it's all you need. Google for example buildouts for the different parts. Takes a while to set it up the first time, but then you can reuse the setup between different projects too.
Let supervisord start everything, not just the python server. Then start supervisord at reboot either fron cron or init.d.
I'm starting a new webapp project in Python to get into the Agile mind-set and I'd like to do things "properly" with regards to deployment. However, I'm finding the whole virtualenv/fabric/zc.buildout/etc stuff a little confusing - I'm used to just FTP'ing PHP files to a server and pointing a webserver at it.
After deployment the server set-up would look something like:
Nginx --proxy-to--> WSGI Webserver (Spawning) --> WSGI Middleware --> WSGI App (probably MNML or similar)
with the python webserver being managed by supervisord.
What sort of deployment set-up/packages/apps should I be looking into? And is there a specific directory structure I need to stick to with my app to ease deployment?