Looks like a good starting point.

ianschenk's fabfile

from fabric.api import *


APTITUDE_CACHE = set()
PIP_CACHE = set()
EASY_INSTALL_CACHE = set()

def aptitude(package):
    aptitude_update()
    if package not in APTITUDE_CACHE:
        APTITUDE_CACHE.add(package)
        return sudo("aptitude -y install %s" % package)

@runs_once
def aptitude_update():
    sudo("aptitude update")

def easy_install(package):
    aptitude("python-setuptools")
    if package not in EASY_INSTALL_CACHE:
        EASY_INSTALL_CACHE.add(package)
        sudo("easy_install %s" % package)

def pip(package):
    easy_install("pip")
    if package not in PIP_CACHE:
        PIP_CACHE.add(package)
        return sudo("pip install %s" % package)

def base():
    aptitude("emacs")
    aptitude("python-dev")
    aptitude("libjpeg-dev")
    aptitude("zlib1g-dev")
    aptitude("PIL")
    pip("virtualenv")
    aptitude("python-psycopg2")

def nginx():
    base()
    aptitude("nginx")

def apache():
    base()
    aptitude("apache2")
    aptitude("libapache2-mod-wsgi")

def celery():
    base()

def postgres():
    aptitude("emacs")
    aptitude("postgresql")
    password = prompt("Choose a new postgres root passord: ")
    sudo("psql -d template1 -c \"ALTER USER postgres with encrypted password '%s'\"" % password, user="postgres")
    #chanage pg_hba.conf (first line in perms): 'local   all         postgres                          md5 sameuser'
    sudo("/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 restart")

def rabbitmq():
    aptitude("rabbitmq-server")

def mq_setup():
    user = prompt("Enter rabbitMQ user: ")
    password = prompt("Enter rabbitMQ password: ")
    vhost = prompt("Enter rabbitMQ virtual host: ")
    sudo("rabbitmqctl add_user %s %s" % (user, password))
    sudo("rabbitmqctl add_vhost %s" % vhost)
    sudo("rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p %s %s \"\" \".*\" \".*\"" % (vhost, user))

import os
def file_insert_after_line(filename, search_line, insert_line, path=None):
    """
    Insert a line after the search_line
    matches search line with starts_with

    not great, but first iter works
    @@ change search_line to RE
    @@ if search_line not found, raise exception
    """
    if path is not None:
        filename = ''.join([path, filename])
    
    tmp = filename + "~"
    with open(tmp, 'w') as outfile:
        with open(filename, 'r') as infile:
            rows = iter(infile)
            for row in rows:
                if row.startswith(search_line):
                    break
                outfile.write(row)
            outfile.write(row)
            outfile.write(insert_line + "\n")
            for row in rows:
                outfile.write(row)

    # @@ do i really have to do this again?
    with open(filename, 'w') as outfile:
        with open(tmp, 'r') as infile:
            rows = iter(infile)
            for row in rows:
                outfile.write(row)
     
    os.remove(tmp)

def add_sudo():
    """ 
    promting user/pass for now, decide if we hard code, read from
    file, etc
    """
    user = prompt("Please enter a user: ")
    passwd = prompt("Please enter a password: ")
    run("useradd %s -d /home/%s -p %s" % user, user, password)
    file_insert_line('sudoers', '# User privilege specification', '%s ALL=(ALL) ALL' % user)

def build_egg():
    local("python setup.py bdist_egg")
    put("dist/XXXX_XXXX.egg", "/remote/path/to/deploy")

def create_repo(repo):
    with cd("/var/repo"):
        run("mkdir %s" % repo)
        with cd("%s" % repo):
            run("hg init .")
            sudo("find . -exec chown %s:devs {} \;" % env.user)
            sudo("find . -exec chmod g+s {} \;")
            sudo("find . -exec chmod g+w {} \;")

def create_project(repo):
    create_repo(repo)
    local("hg clone ssh://%s@%s//repo/%s" % (env.user, env.host_string, repo))

def tail(file):
    sudo("tail -f %s" % file)

def reboot():
    sudo("reboot")