README

This README document an example for how to setup a Docker based Elastic Beanstalk (EB) running a Django Project with a Postgres RDS instance

This version uses the Generic Docker Platform in EB

How do I get set up?

• install Python 3.4

• install git

• install pip

• install virtualenv

• make virtualenv

• pip install -r requirements.txt

• pip install -r local_requirements.txt

Local Setup (Fabric)

• As indicated, you must first install python 2.7/3.4, git, pip and virtualenv

• fab statics

  • to collect statics

• fab test

  • to run unit tests

• fab migrate

  • To makemigrations and migrate database

• fab runserver

  • To run local server

• fab eb_create

  • To deploy initial setup to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

• fab eb_deploy

  • To deploy code changes to an existing image (previously created)

Local Setup (Docker compose)

Assuming you install docker-compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/)

• docker-compose up -d
• docker-compose build web // To rebuild django server after changes
• docker-compose run --rm web python manage.py migrate
• docker-compose run --rm web python manage.py initadmin
• docker-compose run --rm web python manage.py test --settings=settings.dev-local

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Release

Assuming credentials stored on ~/.aws/credentials (http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html)

• export AWS_PROFILE='your-profile-name'
• export EB_ENV_NAME='elastic-beanstalk-environment-and-app-name' (we are using env==app names)
• fab eb_create_preconfigured
  • Enter db name and password
  • It can take as much as ten minutes to finish
• After the site is up, go to the following address to initialize the admin account
  • http://.elasticbeanstalk.com/account/init
  • Then login and change the password

References

• https://realpython.com/blog/python/deploying-a-django-app-to-aws-elastic-beanstalk/