Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Working with Docker containers for Django, Gunicorn, Nginx, and PostgreSQL

Django projects depend not only on Python requirements, but also on many system requirements, such as a web server, database, server cache, and mail server. When developing a Django project, you need to ensure that all environments and all developers will have all the same requirements installed. One way to keep those dependencies in sync is to use Docker. With Docker, you can have different versions of the database, web, or other servers required individually for each project.

Docker is a system for creating configured, customized virtual machines called containers. It allows us to duplicate the setup of any production environment precisely. Docker containers are ...