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fab-canvas is a python script that helps with (mostly) hands-free installation of canvas in the cloud.

• Canvas is open source LMS from Instructure
• [Fabric]http://fabfile.org is awesome and does not need an intro

quick summary

Typing this in your correctly set up virtualenv will setup canvas in your cloud instance

workon workhere
fab test 	-----pings your server IP address to make sure your DNS is set correctly
fab prep    -----prepares your cloud server for canvas installation 
fab canvas  -----installs canvas in production https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Production-Start

###adding fabric to the virtual environment

workon workhere
pip install fabric

###adding openstack.compute to the virtual environment

• openstack.compute library helps manage servers in the cloud using python

workon workhere
cd ~/domains/workhere
git clone https://github.com/jacobian/openstack.compute.git
cd openstack.compute
python setup.py install
cd ~/domains/workhere

• Prepare a virtual environment
• github configuration