Django, Postgres, Docker

A multi-container Django and Postgres Docker Project.

Run from Docker containers

1. Create and customize .env/postgres.env file.

POSTGRES_DB=your-db-name
POSTGRES_USER=your-db-username
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=choose-a-strong-password
POSTGRES_HOST=db
POSTGRES_PORT=5432

2. Build and start the containers.

$ docker-compose up

3. Browse to localhost:8000/ to verify that Django is running successfully from the containers.

Run locally

1. If you like to be able to run Django commands from your local machine as well, create and customize a .env/django_local.env file.

DJANGO_SECRET_KEY='move-your-Django-secret-to-this-file'
POSTGRES_DB=same-as-postgres.env
POSTGRES_USER=same-as-postgres.env
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=same-as-postgres.env
POSTGRES_HOST=localhost
POSTGRES_PORT=same-as-postgres.env

2. Source and export local environment settings.

$ source .env/django_local.env && export $(cut -d '=' -f 1 .env/django_local.env)

3. Create, Activate a virtualenv, e.g. using virtualenvewrapper.

$ mkvirtualenv venv

4. Install requirements

(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Run initial Django migration.

(venv) $ python manage.py migrate

6. Run a local server on a different port.

(venv) $ python manage.py runserver 8080

Create Super User and login to Django Admin

1. Stop the local server and the docker containers.

2. Create your Django super user

(venv) $ python manage.py createsuperuser

3. Run your local server and/or docker containers and verify that you can login to the admin site by navigating to: local server: localhost:8080/admin docker server: localhost:8000/admin