Deploying a Django app on AWS

Overview

All of these steps are performed locally.

Prerequisites

• See AWS Services
• See Django App Prerequisites for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Deploying a Django app

Updates to the app are deployed with eb deploy.

This looks at .elasticbeanstalk/config.yml for the target application and environment.

branch-defaults:
  master:
    environment: nrose-env
global:
  application_name: north-rose
  default_ec2_keyname: nrosedevs-aws
  default_platform: 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.09 v2.0.6 running Python 3.4
  default_region: us-west-2
  profile: eb-cli
  sc: git

With the master Git branch checked out, and the config.yml above, eb deploy will package up the project file and upload them to the EC2 instance corresponding with the nrose-env environment of the north-rose app.

To update a staging environment, edit config.yml with the following:

branch-defaults:
  master:
    environment: nrose-env
  staging:
    environment: nrose-staging

With the staging Git branch checked out, eb deploy will now update the nrose-staging environment.

Installing Django app dependencies

See Defining Django App Dependencies

Notes

See also

• Deploying a Django Application - AWS Elastic Beanstalk documentation
• Deploying a Django app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Real Python (Jan. 22, 2015)