Welcome to Minitage’s documentation!

What is minitage

Minitage is all about deployment and projects packaging

• Why should i use minitage?
  • Minitage leitmotivs
  • A professional tool
• Minitage, the meta-package manager
  • Purpose
  • Pre requisite knowledge
  • Variables used in this documentation
  • Minitage, the origins
• Specifications
  • The package manager in 7 points
  • The minilays
  • The minibuilds
  • The installation layout

How do i use it

• Installation

• Minitage in the daily use of a developer
  • The minitage swiss knife, minimerge
  • Beginning a project with minitage: The Initial Steps
  • Porting an exising buildout based project to be a good minitage citizen
  • Installation with a python 2.5
  • A plone3 project with relstorage (postgresql) and varnish2 support
  • Install a project with a CAS server wired on an OpenLDAP backend
  • FAQ

• Minitage and paster templates
  • Minitage and projects templates
    • paster is your friend
    • Listing the available templates
    • Generating a minitage project from a paster template
  • Available projects
    • The minitage buildout recipes
    • Dependency project
    • Python based projet
    • Plone 2.5
    • Zope2
    • Plone 3
    • Zope 3
    • Pylons projects
    • Django projects
  • Minitage and instances
    • Abstract
    • Basic layout
    • Listing the available instances
    • Installing a instance
  • Available instances
    • minitage.instances.env
    • minitage.instances.postgresql
    • minitage.instances.varnish
    • minitage.instances.varnish2
    • minitage.instances.paste-initd
    • minitage.instances.mysql
    • minitage.instances.cas

How can i contribute to its development

• Develop
  • Tools for developers
  • Installing the development version of minitage