Chapter 2: Managing Odoo Server Instances

In Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment, we looked at how to set up an Odoo instance using only the standard core add-ons that are shipped with source. This chapter focuses on adding non-core or custom add-ons to an Odoo instance. In Odoo, you can load add-ons from multiple directories. In addition, it is recommended that you load your third-party add-ons or your own custom add-ons from separate folders to avoid conflicts with Odoo core modules. Even Odoo Enterprise Edition is a type of add-on directory, and you need to load this just like a normal add-ons directory.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Configuring the add-ons path
• Standardizing your instance directory layout
• Installing and upgrading local add-on modules
• Installing add-on modules from GitHub
• Applying changes to add-ons
• Applying and trying proposed pull requests

  About the terminology

  In this book, we will use the terms add-on or module or app or add-on module interchangeably. All of them refer to the Odoo app or Extension app that can be installed in Odoo from the user interface.