https://github.com/dbravender/gitric https://github.com/dbravender/gitric (which I wrote) is a much more generic fabric module that will work for more cases. It

https://github.com/dbravender/gitric https://github.com/dbravender/gitric (which I wrote) is a much more generic fabric module that will work for more cases. It looks like this particular solution only works because the database query was copied to the web server which might not work for everyone. Check out the sample blue/green deployment fab file here: https://github.com/dbravender/gitric/blob/master/bluegreen-example/fabfile.py https://github.com/dbravender/gitric/blob/master/bluegreen-e.... We used the same technique at my last job on a Django site and deployed it several times a day for two and a half years with zero downtime.