Editing Creating a Django Admin Account on Elastic Beanstalk

[[Category:AWS]] [[Category:Django]] [[Category:Web Development]]

Create a custom Django command. 

Custom Django commands are placed in a package named `management.commands` in an app separate from the main app, e.g. `project_root/not_main_app/management/commands/my_custom_command.py`. Django can locate the commands automatically when running `manage.py` when they follow this convention.

<syntaxhighlight lang="python">
# not_main_app/management/commands/create_su.py
import os

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand

from com.cygora.apps.users.models.User import User

class Command(BaseCommand):

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        username = os.environ['SU_USERNAME']
        if not User.objects.filter(username=username).exists():
            User.objects.create_superuser(username,
                                          os.environ['SU_USERNAME'],
                                          os.environ['SU_PASSWORD'])
</syntaxhighlight>

Note that it's essential to place `__init__.py` files in each of the directories all the way down to the `commands` directory.

I created a package solely for the purpose of hosting this management command named `eb_deploy`.

Add a containers command to a `.ebextensions` `.config` file. ''(This should come after migration commands.)'':

<syntaxhighlight lang="yaml">
container_commands:
  02_create_superuser_for_django_admin:
    command: "python manage.py create_su"
    leader_only: true
</syntaxhighlight>

== Notes ==

* [http://stackoverflow.com/a/22639516/1399562 Create a login and pass for Django Admin on AWS] - Stack Overflow, Mar 2014