How to set target hosts in Fabric file

Question

I want to use Fabric to deploy my web app code to development, staging and production servers. My fabfile:

def deploy_2_dev():
  deploy(\'dev\')

def deploy_         


        

Answer 1

You need to modify env.hosts at the module level, not within a task function. I made the same mistake.

from fabric.api import *

def _get_hosts():
    hosts = []
    ... populate 'hosts' list ...
    return hosts

env.hosts = _get_hosts()

def your_task():
    ... your task ...