Dockerized PostgreSQL and Django for Local Development
Docker and docker-compose make it dead simple to avoid dependency hell and have a consistent environment for your whole team while doing local development. This post walks through setting up a new Django project from scratch to use Docker and docker-compose. It is modeled after a previous post that I wrote about doing a similar thing with Laravel and MySQL.
Dockerfile
Nothing too interesting happening here. Installing python and pip.FROM ubuntu:16.04system update
RUN apt update RUN apt upgrade -y
python deps
RUN apt install -y python3-dev python3-pip
docker-compose.yml
version: '2' services: app: build: . ports: - "8000:8000" volumes: - .:/app working_dir: /app command: bash -c "pip3 install -r requirements.txt && python3 manage.py migrate && python3 manage.py runserver 0:8000" depends_on: - db db: image: postgres:9.6.5-alpine environment: - POSTGRES_USER=feedread - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=feedread volumes: - ./data:/var/lib/postgresql/data ports: - "5432:5432"
docker-compose up
. Each time the app starts it will install the latest dependencies, run migrations, and start serving the app on localhost:8000
Notes
- In order to do stuff with the database locally you should add the following record to your local /etc/hosts file
# /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 db
- Since we define -
.:/app
as a volume, this means that all of your local changes are immediately visible in the dockerized app. - If you need to access the running app or db container you can do so with
docker-compose exec app bash
ordocker-compose exec db bash
. - This docker-compose file is not really suitable for production since it is not likely that you would want to build the container each time the app starts or automatically run migrations.
- You can add additional services like memcached, a mail server, an app server, a queue, etc., using the same method that we are using above with our database.
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