The way to start a Django project with Docker

• Docker v20.x
• Docker-compose v1.28
• Django v3.x

1. Clone this git repository to your local machine.

2. Install docker and docker-compose using official documentation.

3. Add user to the docker group to run commands without sudo:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

4. Update settings in dev.env and confetti/settings/prod.py(recommended).

5. Go to the project root and run:

docker-compose up

6. Create Django superuser in the container(in the second shell):

docker-compose exec web python manage.py createsuperuser 

7. Run tests(optional):

docker-compose exec web python manage.py test 

8. Navigate to http://localhost:8000/.

1. Create and fill .env and confetti/settings/prod.py.

2. Run application:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up

3. Generate certificates(see next section).

4. Navigate to https://localhost/.

How to generate ssl certificates? Follow this guide.

The simplest way with less headaches:

1. ssh to the server and go to the project root, assume that you configured domains properly:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml exec nginx sh

2. Install certbot:

apk update && apk add certbot certbot-nginx

3. Generate certificates, we use volumes so we don't need to copy certs manually, don't forget to commit them or even better exclude them from git tracking:

certbot certonly --nginx # follow instructions

4. Update data in deployment/nginx/app.conf, and then:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up --build

Ad Hoc docker/docker-compose commands (put in .bash_aliases):

alias dcubn=docker-compose build --no-cache
alias dcub=docker-compose up --build
alias dcu=docker-compose up

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Happy coding 😊