diff --git a/fabfile.py b/fabfile.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c18038
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fabfile.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+
+from fabric.api import env, task, run, warn_only, cd, prefix, sudo
+from fabric.contrib.files import exists
+
+from contextlib import contextmanager as _contextmanager
+
+env.use_ssh_config = True
+
+env.user = 'lmas'
+env.project = 'ss13_hub'
+
+env.path = '/opt/{}'.format(env.project)
+env.repo_path = '{}/{}'.format(env.path, env.project)
+env.venv_path = '{}/venv'.format(env.path)
+env.activate = 'source {}/bin/activate'.format(env.venv_path)
+
+@_contextmanager
+def virtualenv():
+    with cd(env.repo_path):
+        with prefix(env.activate):
+            yield
+
+################################################################################
+
+@task
+def init_base_dir():
+    if exists(env.path):
+        return
+    sudo('mkdir {}'.format(env.path))
+    sudo('chown {0}:{0} {1}'.format(env.user, env.path))
+
+@task
+def update_repo():
+    '''Deploy the app to a server.'''
+    if exists(env.repo_path):
+        with cd(env.repo_path):
+            run('git pull')
+    else:
+        run('git clone git://github.com/lmas/{}.git {}'.format(env.project, env.repo_path))
+
+@task
+def init_venv():
+    if exists(env.venv_path):
+        return
+    with cd(env.path):
+        run('virtualenv {}'.format(env.venv_path))
+
+@task
+def update_venv():
+    with virtualenv():
+        run('pip install --upgrade -r {}/requirements.txt'.format(env.repo_path))
+
+@task
+def collect_static():
+    # TODO: needs to grab settings before this
+    with virtualenv():
+        run('python src/manage.py collectstatic --noinput')
+
+@task
+def migrate():
+    with virtualenv():
+        run('python src/manage.py migrate')
+        # TODO: create a superuser?
+
+@task
+def init_supervisor():
+    if exists('/etc/supervisor/conf.d/'):
+        sudo('cp {}/supervisor.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/{}.conf'.format(
+            env.repo_path, env.project))
+        sudo('supervisorctl reread')
+        sudo('supervisorctl add {}'.format(env.project))
+
+@task
+def restart():
+    sudo('supervisorctl restart {}'.format(env.project))
+
+@task
+def deploy():
+    '''Initialize some directories and deploy the app on a server.'''
+    init_base_dir()
+    update_repo()
+    init_venv()
+    update_venv()
+    collect_static()
+    migrate()
+    init_supervisor()
+    restart()
+
+@task
+def quick_update():
+    '''Update to latest version of the app and restart.'''
+    update_repo()
+    collect_static()
+    migrate()
+    restart()
+
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index caf8d31..49520f6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ requests
 beautifulsoup4
 redis
 gunicorn
+fabric