Django AWS Elastic Beanstalk Starter template

Get a new django app up and running in Elastic beanstalk in under 5 minutes

A starter template to get you up and running django app that works out of box with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

The template contains following:

• Default settings for Project root, static root.
• Separate Development, Testing and Production settings for seamless deployment
• Celery fully configured to run in Elastic beanstalk app
• Automatic Db migrations when deploying.

How to start?

Prerequisites

On your local machine, you should have following things configured as pre requisite:

• Postgres DB
• Rabbit MQ Broker
• AWS CLI installed and configured.

To complete prerequisites, refer this tutorial.

Steps

1. In your project folder, clone contents of this repo with:

 $ git clone [email protected]:CodePalTutorials/django-elasticbeanstalk-starter.git .

Clone contents inside this repo, hence [dot] at the end in the command above.

2. Init python virtual environment and install required libs from requirements.

$ virtualenv venv
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add local database settings in ebdjango/local_settings.py.

4. Create elastic beanstalk app and provision a postgres database with that app.

$ eb init -p python2.7 <appname>
$ eb init
$ eb create production-env

To provision database in Elastic beanstalk app, refer Step 6 of this tutorial.

5. Set correct environment variables in Elastic beanstalk environment. For ex, to make current environment production environment, set:

$ eb setenv ENVIRONMENT=PROD

Options are PROD, TEST and DEVEL.

6. Set your rabbit MQ broker URL in ebdjango/testing_settings.py & ebdjango/production_settings.py.

7. Deploy with eb deploy.

Detailed Tutorial

Refer to the tutorial below if you need more help with setting things up: https://www.trysudo.com/deploying-django-app-on-aws-using-elastic-beanstalk/) tutorial.

1. Creating & Deploying basic Django app on Elastic Beanstalk: https://www.trysudo.com/deploying-django-app-on-aws-using-elastic-beanstalk.
2. Adding celery on Django Elastic beanstalk app: https://www.trysudo.com/asynchronous-tasks-and-cron-jobs-in-aws-django-app-using-celery/

Contribution

Any suggestions and contribution and welcome. Feel free to send PR, raise issues & make feature requests.