Deploying Django with Docker Compose

How to deploy a Django app to an EC2 instance using Docker Compose.

Find the blog post for this tutorial here: https://londonappdeveloper.com/deploy...

Resources:
uwsgi_params: https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/...
Install Docker Compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
GitHub SSH Guide: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise...
Finished Source Code: https://github.com/LondonAppDeveloper...

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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:22 - Requirements
00:02:26 - Creating a new project on Github
00:04:22 - Setup Docker in our project
00:14:50 - Create a Docker Compose file for running development server
00:18:42 - Create a .dockerignore file
00:22:33 - Update settings.py file so that it pulls configuration values from environment variables
00:30:04 - Add a database to use for our application
00:33:55 - Add the Postgres driver to our Django application
00:41:05 - Create a model that we can test with in Django
00:41:14 - Create a new app in our Django project to add the model to
00:48:35 - Add a wait for db command
00:56:34 - Update Docker Compose file to handle migrations and run this command before we start the app
00:59:37 - Configure our application to handle static and media files
01:02:00 - Configure our application to handle these static and media files
01:06:20 - Update settings.py to configure the locations that we created for static and media files
01:10:37 - Test our local development server
01:15:35 - Adding the uWSGI_params file
01:24:20 - Start the NGINX server
01:25:08 - Create a Docker file inside our proxy
01:27:42 - Define default environment variables
01:33:12 - Configure our Django app to run as a uWSGI service
01:59:40 - Test to ensure we can upload images in production mode
02:01:51 - Deploy to an AWS server
02:04:46 - Create a virtual machine
02:09:48 - Installing Git
02:12:49 - Update project code and push to Github
02:13:00 - Set up a deploy key
02:17:01 - Clone and run the service
02:18:07 - Add the configuration
02:19:56 - Launch our application
02:21:16 - Create a superuser to test with