Deployment

Here we describe how to deploy a project named “foobar” to production. We are using cookiecutter-django for convenience, but this should also be possible with other project bootstrapping mechanisms.

Contents:

• Locally / Setting up your development machine
  • Running the App locally
  • Installation using Docker
• Useful third party services for production
  • Mailgun
  • Sentry
  • Amazon S3
• Heroku
  • Install the heroku command line app
  • Use S3 for storing media files
  • Set the configuration variables for heroku
  • Deploy your project to heroku
  • Use your own domain name with heroku
  • SSL
  • Caveats
• Setting up your production machine on EC2
  • Creating your machine on EC2
  • Install required software to run your docker deployment
  • Make supervisorctl accessible for normal users
  • Make docker-compose runable as normal user
  • Reboot
  • Check out source
  • Convenience
  • Keeping the service running with supervisor
  • Set the environment variables
  • Starting the docker containers manually
  • Using supervisorctl