Dockerizing Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, Nginx and Certbot

🚀 Features

A Django stater project with fully basic requirements for a production-ready version.

1. Dockerizing Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, and Nginx. Refer: django-on-docker
2. Configuration for Nginx and Certbot with Let’s Encrypt on docker-compose. Refer: nginx-certbot
3. Django REST framework sample.
4. A batteries-included, opinionated template for Django. Refer: djangox

• User log in/out, sign up, password reset via django-allauth
• Static files configured with Whitenoise
• Styling with Bootstrap v4
• Debugging with django-debug-toolbar
• DRY forms with django-crispy-forms

Development

Uses the default Django development server.

1. Rename .env.dev-sample to .env.dev.

2. Update the environment variables in the docker-compose.yml and .env.dev files.

3. Build the images and run the containers:

   $ docker-compose up -d --build

   Test it out at http://localhost:8000.

Production

Uses gunicorn + nginx.

1. Rename .env.prod-sample to .env.prod and .env.prod.db-sample to .env.prod.db. Update the environment variables.

2. Build the images and run the containers:

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

   Test it out at http://localhost:1337.

3. Modify init-letsencrypt.sh & app.conf with domains and email addresses then running it:

   $ ./init-letsencrypt.sh