是否可以将fabfile作为全局脚本运行

Question

I wrote a fabfile for our developers this week to help with deployment of DBs and files to remote staging and production environments. Its a fairly complex fabfile that uses configured json file to help set production / staging env variables.

My question is can I somehow add my fabfile to /usr/bin to run the fabfile globally. Being able to run commands without having to copy and past the fabfile into each webroot(design agency problems).

Ideally i could do:

fab deploy

within Sites/site.dev/ or Sites/site2.dev/ without having to copy the fabfile into those directories. I assume there must be a way to accomplish this using aliases but my knowledge here is too weak to get that job done.

My system is osx.

Answer 1

I think I solved my dilemma. It turns out you can specify fabfile location using the -f flag. from here it was pretty simple to create aliases for commands like

alias deployfiles='fab -f ../devops/fabfile.py syncfiles'

$ deployfiles

Pretty obvious, surprised no one gave this solution.

Answer 2

On Mac, another option is just add the following to the top of your fab file:

#!/usr/bin/env fab -f

def boo():
    print 'x'

Then you can run it like so:

(venv)machine:soft kane$ ./test.py -l
Available commands:

    boo
(venv)machine:soft kane$ ./test.py boo
x

Done.