Ansible-Django

Ansible playbooks used to deploy a Django project on a remote server. This playbook assumes the remote server to be debian based. I used it to deploy https://github.com/pattu777/LearningDjango project on a Digital Ocean droplet.

Also checkout my post http://www.chinmayapatanaik.com/2016/06/25/Ansible-Django/ for more detailed description.

Prerequisites

• Ansible installed on your local system.
• Passwordless setup for a user with sudo privilleges.
• A Django project copied onto the remote server.
• For simplicity I am using SQLite as my back-end database.
• A custom domain pointing to your cloud server(Optional). This domain name is used while setting up Nginx.

Tasks

• Install necessary packages.
  • System packages
  • Python packages
• Setup Django.
  • Create a virtualenv.
  • Install packages from requirements.txt file.
  • Create db models.
  • Collect static files.
• Setup Gunicorn.
  • Customize the conf file.
  • Copy the gunicorn.conf file to the remote server.
  • Restart gunicorn server.
• Setup Nginx.
  • Customize the Nginx conf file.
  • Copy the Nginx config file to the remote server.
  • Restart Nginx server.

Developing

Clone the repo. Make sure the prerequisities are met.

• Modify ansible.cfg.
• Provide IP address in hosts file.

Finally run the playbook as shown below.

$ git clone --recursive git@github.com:pattu777/Ansible-Django.git
$ cd Ansible-Django
$ ansible-playbook -s deploy.yml

TODO

• A new role for setting up data stores like MySQL, Postgres etc.
• Check how to run the playbook in sudo mode through ansible.cfg
• Clone a Git repository instead of assuming it's already present on the remote server

Finally go to your domain and see your django app working.