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Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the best platforms for open source ERP and CRM. Its latest version, Odoo 12, brings with it new features and updates in Python packages to develop more customizable applications with additional cloud capabilities. The book begins by covering the development essentials for building business applications. You will start your journey by learning how to install and configure Odoo, and then transition from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You will develop your first Odoo application and understand topics such as models and views. Odoo 12 Development Essentials will also guide you in using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress through the chapters, you will be equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features in Odoo 12, such as cloud integration, to scale your business applications. You will get insights into building business logic and integrating various APIs into your application. By the end of the book, you will be able to build a business application from scratch by using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 14. 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 for this chapter is to introduce the most important configuration aspects and best practices specific to Odoo deployment, so that system administrators can better prepare their Odoo server hosts.

Still, after following this chapter, the reader will be able to set up a reasonably secure Odoo server, good enough for low-profile production use. The recipes given in this chapter aren't the only valid way to deploy Odoo, either; other approaches or variants are also possible.

In this chapter, we'll discuss the following topics:

  • Installing Odoo from source code, including the...