How should the Fabric deployment work If I'm using Django on Heroku with Django-South?

Question

I want to use Fabric so I can wrap all my production deployment steps:

• git push to heroku
• South migrations
• collectstatic for static files to S3

I'm assuming that for the git push to heroku and the collectstatic I can just put their commands into a fabfile, correct? How would South migrations work?

Answer 1

Couldn't you just wrap the commands in a shell script?

deploy.sh

git push heroku master
heroku run python project/manage.py migrate
# Collect static command - not sure if you want to do this locally or from Heroku