raunak-r / django-AWS

Plain simple deployment of a Django project to an EC2 instance, using S3 for storage & RDS (Postgres) for the DB.

Django EC2

This repository contains the code for this blogpost.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Kindly ensure you have the following installed on your machine:

• Python 3
• Pipenv
• Docker
• Git
• An IDE or Editor of your choice

Running the Application

Running the App

> git clone https://github.com/raunak-r/django_ec2.git

Open Docker (WINDOWS, See DockerFile first 3 lines.)
> cd <path>/django_ec2/
> docker build -t django_ec2 -f .\deployment\dockerfile .
> docker run -p 8000:8000 django_ec2
Visit localhost:8000 on Chrome.

Setting Up EC2

1. Launch EC2 instance as outlined in this article
2. Download .pem file (this is the private key for the ec2)
3. Open WSL

> cp private key to the wsl .ssh folder
> chmod 400
>  ssh -i private-key.pem [e-mail]

> sudo yum upgrade
> sudo yum install git

> git clone https://github.com/raunak-r/django_ec2.git
> docker build -t django_ec2 -f ./deployment/dockerfile .
> docker run -p 8000:8000 django_ec2
Visit ip-addr:8000/ on Chrome on Local

OLD COMMANDS FROM Ro6ley's README

Setting up everything for your development

1. Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/ro6ley/django_ec2.git

2. Check into the cloned repository

$ cd django_ec2

3. If you are using Pipenv, setup the virtual environment and start it as follows:

$ pipenv install && pipenv shell

4. Install the requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Start the Django API

$ python manage.py runserver

6. Navigate to http://localhost:8000

7. Build the Docker image:

$ docker build . -t django_ec2

8. Publish the Docker image to Dockerhub:

$ docker tag django_ec2 <DOCKERHUB_USERNAME>/django_ec2
$ docker push <DOCKERHUB_USERNAME>/django_ec2

9. Deploy on AWS EC2 as outlined in this article