In this guide, I’ll show you how to enable HTTPS on a Django app that’s deployed using Docker. You can find the full source code for this tutorial project here: LondonAppDeveloper/django-docker-deployment-with-https-using-letsencrypt
This is a question asked by a student who is taking our course: Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django – Advanced. Question A student asked: What is the difference between Docker and Docker Compose? Why do we need both a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml file in the project? Answer When working with Docker, […]
There are a number of ways you can deploy a Django app. One of the simplest is by running the app using Docker Compose directly on a Linux virtual machine. The benefits to this approach are: Fastest and easier to get up and running. Define your deployment configuration with your code. Consistent development and production […]
Students of our course Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django – Advanced have recently been getting the following issue when pulling Docker images in Travis-CI jobs: The problem occurs because Docker is now rate limiting image pulls. There is a limit of 100 pulls for anonymous users, which are tracked via their […]
In this guide I’m going to show you how to deploy a Django application to Google App Engine (GAE) using Docker. Specifically, we’ll be doing this: Creating a new Django project with Docker and Docker Compose Creating a placeholder app with an image and CSS to demonstrate handling static files Setting up a project on […]
If you already have Docker on your machine, you can create a new Django project (using any version) using a single command. Create in an app/ directory: Create in the current working directory: This is useful if you need to create a project quickly, but don’t want to install a specific version of Django globally. […]
I am a huge advocate for integrating Docker into your development process. There are many benefits to this, such as: Consistent developer environments Parity of development and production environments Dependency isolation from your laptop and development environment However, all these benefits don’t come without a downside… When you isolate your development server into a Docker […]
In our advanced course on building REST APIs, we teach how to use Travis-CI to run unit tests and linting for your project. Since launching the course, GitHub has launched their own CI/CD workflow tool called GitHub Actions and many students have asked how to use that instead. In this post I’m going to show […]
This topic is covered in-depth in our 14 hour DevOps course. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how professional developers should use Terraform on a project. If you prefer to watch this tutorial in video format, find the video below: If you just want to see the finished sample code, you can find that here: […]
In this post I’ll explain how to install Python using PyEnv on a macOS machine. This tutorial is also available in video form here: What is PyEnv and why use it? macOS comes with Python pre-installed. However, the version installed is usually 2.7, which was deprecated on January 1st 2020. So you might be thinking: […]