It is however reccommended to set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE envirnoment variable other you need to pass settings to every other command (like migrate)
You may need access keys for third party services like Amazon S3, Twilio etc. extend the development.py settings with an untracked file and put the keys there.
This project has been configured to be deployed in ElasticBeanStalk, so the production settings should be riddled with EBS environment variable references.
Beanstalk container commands set up to collectstatic and migrate with --noinput
on the first run, a super user needs to be created manually for the django admin