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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is fast becoming the reference open source platform for business applications thanks to the fact that it provides the infrastructure needed for developers to deliver software solutions for any business process quickly. Odoo's layered module approach makes it particularly effective for combining and extending features. This updated fifth edition is a tutorial-style introduction to essential Odoo development topics. The book starts by covering the development essentials for building business applications and takes you through Odoo installation and configuration, gradually transitioning from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You'll then learn how to develop your first Odoo application, while covering topics such as models and views. Later chapters will get you up to speed with using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress, you’ll get equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features available in Odoo 12 and beyond, such as in-memory ORM and computed writable fields. Finally, you’ll gain insights into building business logic and using the Odoo API to integrate with various applications. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build business apps from scratch using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development
6
Section 2: Models
9
Section 3: Business Logic
13
Section 4: Views
18
Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

In this chapter, you'll learn the basics of preparing an Odoo server for use in a production environment.

Setting up and maintaining servers is a non-trivial topic in itself and should be done by specialists. The information given here is not enough to ensure an average user can create a resilient and secure environment that hosts sensitive data and services.

The goal of this chapter is to introduce the most important configuration aspects and the best practices specific to Odoo deployments. This will help system administrators prepare their Odoo server hosts.

You will start by setting up the host system, and then you will install the Odoo prerequisites and Odoo itself. Ubuntu is a popular choice for cloud servers, and it will be used here. Then, the Odoo configuration file needs to be prepared. Until this point, the setup is similar to the one used for the development environment.

Next, Odoo needs to be configured...