20.2. Deploy Gunicorn and Docker

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/howto/deployment/

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/howto/deployment/checklist/

20.2.1. Dockerfile

Create file myproject/Dockerfile with content:

FROM python:3.13
WORKDIR /data

COPY requirements.txt /tmp
COPY src /data

RUN pip install gunicorn
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements.txt

CMD gunicorn myproject.wsgi \
    --name myproject \
    --bind=0.0.0.0:8000 \
    --workers=1 \
    --error-logfile=/data/logs/gunicorn-error.log \
    --access-logfile=/data/logs/gunicorn-access.log \
    --log-level=info

20.2.2. Docker

Build:

$ docker build . -t myproject

Test:

$ docker run -it -p 8000:8000 myproject
$ open http://localhost:8000

Run:

$ docker run \
    --detach \
    --name myproject \
    --restart always \
    --network local \
    --volume /home/myproject/logs:/data/logs \
    myproject

20.2.3. Nginx

$ mkdir -p /home/myproject

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
    return 301 https://mydomain.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name         mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
    error_log           /data/logs/mydomain.com.error warn;
    access_log          /data/logs/mydomain.com.access combined;

    # certbot https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html
    ssl_certificate     /data/cert/live/mydomain.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /data/cert/live/mydomain.com/privkey.pem;

    location /static/ {
        root /data/static/;
    }

    location /media/ {
        root /data/media/;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_pass http://myproject:8000/;
    }

}

$ sudo docker run \
    --name httpd \
    --detach \
    --restart always \
    --publish 80:80 \
    --publish 443:443 \
    --network local \
    --volume /home/myproject/static:/data/static \
    --volume /home/myproject/media:/data/media \
    --volume /home/myproject/logs:/data/log \
    --volume /home/myproject/cert:/data/cert:ro \
    --volume /home/myproject/conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d:ro \
    nginx