pattycutie/lab-deploy-django-app-on-ibm-cf

Hands-on Lab: Deploy Your Django App on IBM Cloud Foundry

Hands-on Lab: Deploy Your Django App on IBM Cloud Foundry

visit sample url here : https://patpicha111.eu-gb.cf.appdomain.cloud/onlinecourse/ Learning Objectives Understand how to prepare your Django app for Cloud Foundry Deployment Deploy your app on IBM Cloud Foundry Pre-requisites You will need an IBM Cloud account to do this lab.

run these following command in terminal :

$ ibmcloud login -u youremail -p yourpassword

$ ibmcloud cf install

$ ibmcloud target -o yourorg -s yourspace

$ ibmcloud cf domains

prepare app and database

get the template ready for deployment

wget "#link to download project" or git clone 'HTTP' or open project from local unzip 'file-name.zip' rm 'file-name.zip'

run commnad:

$ibmcloud cf domains $pip3 install -r requirements.txt (you maybe need to update dependensies like $ pip install --upgrade pip )

perform and run migration

$ python3 manage.py makemigrations $ python3 manage.py migrate $ python3 manage.py runserver

Launch Application with port 8000

add the /onlinecourse path and your full URL

Deploying a Django App on IBM Cloud Foundry

prepare the gunicorn server for Django app

To serve those static files, we will need another webserver for better load balancing management. Cloud Foundry provides a Staticfile buildpack supported by nginx server

create empty file "procfile" under project root folder and add this command

web: gunicorn myproject.wsgi

create manifest.yml file to cuztomize IBM cloud

applications:

• name: onlinecourse <*app name> routes:
  • route: yourhost.us-south.cf.appdomain.cloud <*hostname.domainname> memory: 128M buildpack: python_buildpack
• name: onlinecourse-nginx <*app name.static server> routes:
  • route: yourhost.us-south.cf.appdomain.cloud/static <*hostname.domainname> memory: 128M buildpack: staticfile_buildpack

Find ALLOWED_HOSTS list in myproject/settings.py and append the host using the route entry in manifest.yml

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['yourhostname.domainname']

start deploying django online app

$ ibmcloud cf push

wait until deployment are finished

Waiting for app to start...

then viit url in the app you have just pushed on cloud foundry

click the Visit App URL link and add a /onlinecourse path. Your full URL

sample url : yluo.us-south.cf.appdomain.cloud/onlinecourse You may also try to access a static file such as yluo.us-south.cf.appdomain.cloud/onlinecourse/static/media/course_images/django.png

which is servered by onlinecourse-nginx app.

In this lab, you have learned how to prepare and deploy the onlinecourse app on IBM Cloud Foundry. In addition, you have learned that to start a ngix server to serve the static files of your onlinecourse app on IBM Cloud Foundry.