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+
+from fabric.api import run, sudo, env
+from fabric.contrib.files import exists
+from fabric.context_managers import prefix, cd
+from fabric.decorators import with_settings
+
+env.user = 'colab' # key depends on env
+env.use_shell = False
+
+environments = {
+    'dev': {
+        'hosts': ['127.0.0.1'],
+        'port': 2222,
+        'key_filename': '~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key',
+    },
+    'live': {
+        'hosts': [], #TODO
+        'key_filename': '~/.ssh/id_rsa',
+    },
+}
+
+
+SOURCE_VENV = 'source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh'
+WORKON_COLAB = '{} && workon colab'.format(SOURCE_VENV)
+
+
+def environment(name):
+     env.update(environments[name])
+     env.environment = name
+environment('dev')
+
+
+def install():
+    if not exists('~colab/.virtualenvs/colab'):
+        with prefix(SOURCE_VENV):
+            run('mkvirtualenv colab')
+
+    if not exists('~colab/colab'):
+        run('git clone https://github.com/TracyWebTech/colab ~colab/colab')
+
+    sudo('supervisorctl reload', shell=False        )
+
+
+def deploy():
+    with cd('~colab/colab'):
+        run('git pull')
+
+    with prefix(WORKON_COLAB):
+        run('pip install -r ~colab/colab/requirements.txt')
+
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