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Django Poster Demo App

Django project that contains a simple app that allows users to post content to a web page.

The purpose of this project is to provide students with a simple working Django app in order to demonstrate deployment of the app using various methods.

This project includes the following:

• Uploading and displaying media/static files
• Django admin
• Docker compose setup for local deployment

Get started

This project contains two docker compose config files:

1. docker-compose.yml is the main file, used for local development/testing of the project.
2. docker-compose-deploy.yml is a deployment simulation, which is used to show how a deployment would work using Docker.

Starting local development server

To test this project locally, ensure you have the following installed:

• Docker/Docker Desktop

Then, run the following:

docker-compose up

This will create the project, and you should be able to login using http://127.0.0.1:8000.

To create a superuser, run:

docker-compose run --rm app sh -c "python manage.py createsuperuser"

To clear all data (including database), run the following:

docker-compose down --volumes

Running deployment simulation

To run the deployment simulation, first copy the config:

cp .env.sample .env

Then open .env and modify the configuration values appropriately.

Next, run the following to start the deployment simulation:

docker-compose -f docker-compsoe-deploy.yml up

This should start a server and support static/media files through the NGINX proxy. You can access the server on http://127.0.0.1:8080.