Abstract

Very quick and easy way to bootstrap run a django web server in a docker container.

Installation

1. Clone this repo
2. Go to repo root
3. Initialize:

    sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose-setup.yml run webinit django-admin startproject my_project .

4. To use postgres, change database section in my_project/settings.py to:

    DATABASES = {
        'default': {
            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
            'NAME': 'postgres',
            'USER': 'postgres',
            'PASSWORD': 'password',
            'HOST': 'db',
            'PORT': 5432,
        }
    }

5. Start:

    docker-compose up

6. http://localhost:8000/

References

wait-for-it.sh by douglas-gibbons https://github.com/vishnubob/wait-for-it