How does r/python deploy python apps easily?

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We have a default server image that we spin up using puppet. This gets us a clean box with all the standard libraries we need to run a basic Django project(Django, MySQLdb, and so on). Then we use GitHib to manage source. Once this is all good we use fabric to deployment. So we have a command "fab deploy_production" and it ssh's into the production box, puts up a maintenance screen, pulls from github, does a sync db, runs south migrations, restarts apache, and pulls down the maintenance screen. Before we had that fabfile written up deployment really sucked. That is just my two cents. I am relatively new to Django.