h1. Overview

The following project is to manage a cloud based infrastructure for multiple providers. The intent is to grow the project into a general administration tool.

The project's layout is as follows:

• conf/ - directory containing the configuration for the application
• apps/teaparty/ - application files and scripts
• startup.py - startup script
• static/ - images, css, etc...
• data/ - database directory for sqllite
• apps/teaparty/templates - template files for the screens
• teapartysvr - startup and server script

It uses on the following projects:

• "pytoaster":http://github.com/driedtoast/pytoaster ** Used for the base of the project
• "bottle":http://bottle.paws.de/ ** Used for web framework
• "sqlalchemy":http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ ** ORM lib
• Boto - http://boto.googlecode.com/files/boto-1.9b.tar.gz ** Used for interacting with amazon aws services

h2. Installing

Untar, assuming this will result in a tar Or git clone

Run ./bin/pytoaster resolve

That's it your are up and running

h2. Starting server

To start the server do the following:

• ./teapartysvr start

This starts up the server and does some initialization of db on first start.

h2. Initializing data

Put json files within the config directory which will initialize the data for the given application Also setup the properties to properly configure the files

TODO more detail on configuration files