Deploying Django with Docker Compose

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

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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
00:30:04 - 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
01:10:37 - 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

[idkman]

Following along this video allowed me to host my first ever webpage! Thank you lots!

[gekare]

2.5 hours of pure information and experience. Thank you so much.

[solarsystem]

Great Thanks for this video! It was very hard to digest for the first deployment, but carefully breaking down and playing around with each step help me a lot to deeper understand what is going on and why I should use a more complex approach

[metalmlover]

The best tutorial and instructor I've seen on the subject. really amazing <3

[janekalam]

This is by far the best tutorial on Django deployment and the best on Docker. Great explanation on every detail. Thanks so much Mark!

[lukeanglin]

I am so thankful for your video Mark. You are an excellent, EXCELLENT teacher. One of the best tutorials for CS on Youtube for any subject! Keep up the wonderful work and I will be praying for your channel to grow even more!

[ajagaabdulbasit]

This is the best tutorial I have seen on deploying docker containers, I applied similar method to deploying on Linode. I learned a lot and I can't wait to get the full course. Great work Mike

[ahmetkemalbabacan]

Still perfect after two years. Great work! The best method I've ever seen about deploying the app to EC2.

[jasonoesch]

THIS. I can finally replace all my hacky docker workarounds and understand what I'm actually doing. Mark, you're the best

[tomaszmakuch]

Great video Mark, keep up the good work! I like the way you slowly explain what you do with no extra unnecessary "decorative" remarks. Hope to have a pint of beer with you sometime in London mate!

[Yuyoukyu]

Hey Mark, really appreciate for your tutorial. This is the exactly video I was looking! It was so detailed and you explain everything so well. Thank you!❤

[rawgov]

If anyone is facing the PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/vol/web/media' issue, here's the fix:-

TLDR fix - enter this command in the terminal from inside the root folder - "sudo chmod -R a+rwx ./data"


Explanation - So, in the docker-compose.yml, because we added ./data/web:/vol/web, under volumes, when we upload a file, it uses the same app user specified in the Dockerfile to write the uploaded file to the ./data folder. So making the /data folder writable fixes the issue

[joshuaochia]

Been trying to find this!! thank you again Mark, you never cease to amaze me and be on the right time ahaahaha

[RR-vioz]

This is exactly what I have been looking for. I took your "Rest API" course on Udemy and learned a lot. Thanks again.

[youtalky_com]

Increadibly proffessional. Blog and the video itself. I am amazed. Thank you so much.

[sanjaydhande]

Ultimate explanation and the integration. Thanks for such excellent presentation and work.

[enricosaccheggiani]

very well explained the part of wsgi, nginx, static files . Very good

[Mrsubset]

Uploaded at the right time. You're a Legend!

[journeytomars]

Thanks for taking out time to create this tutorial. This video sooo good that I had to purchase the advanced course.

[miles]

Thanks for the excellent tutorial Mark. successfully tested the deployment on the production server locally but, have some problem in the development, particularly in the " ", it gives me Permission denied error and was not mounted on the "/data/web", but when using " ", there is no error and can saved the media in "app/app/vol/static/media" and was not mounted in "/data/web/". anyway, the production deployment was great locally, haven't tested it yet in the actual production server, thanks Mark. keep it up.