Dockerize Django Environment

Specification

• WSGI
  • Gunicorn
• HTTP server
  • nginx
• Database
  • PostgreSQL

How to use

1. Build your Docker environment

docker-compose build

2. Create the Django project using the docker-compose command.

docker-compose run web django-admin.py startproject yourproject .

3. In your project directory, edit the yourproject/settings.py file.

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'your_db_name',
        'USER': 'your_db_user',
        'PASSWORD': 'your_db_password',
        'HOST': 'db',
        'PORT': 5432,
    }
}

4. In web/yourproject/settings.py, add the line at the bottom of it.

 STATIC_ROOT = STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

5. Install Admin app. In web/yourproject/settings.py, add line django.contrib.admin

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

6. Run the docker-compose up command again

sh bin/container_start.sh

7. Go ahead, create your app!

docker-compose exec web python manage.py startapp yourapp

8. Initilize your database

docker-compose exec web python manage.py migrate

9. Enable Model

• Define your model class in yourapps/models.py

• Add line yourapps.apps.YourappsConfig in web/app/settings.py of INSTALLED_APPS

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
      'yourapps.apps.YourappsConfig',
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
  ]

• do migrations

  docker exec web python manage.py makemigrations yourapps

10. Initilize Django admin

docker-compose exec -it web python manage.py createsuperuser

11. Collecting staticfiles

docker-compose run web python manage.py collectstatic --noinput