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May 24, 2019

Django deployment with Dokku

After recently having migrated our previous Django deployment stack to Dokku, we are sharing our experience in this post.

Dokku

Dokku is Platform As A Service (PaaS) solution you can host on your own server. It is similar to Heroku but self-hosted. They share the same buildpacks used to build applications.

Installation is pretty straightforward and well explained on the official documentation. In this tutorial we assume you have a ...

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Sep 10, 2013

Django deployement : ubuntu, upstart, nginx, gunicorn and virtualenvwrapper

Update 2019: the stack described here is now considered obsolete. Please see our new way of deploying Django apps.

Introduction

Previously my stack of choice for deploying django apps was apache + mod_wsgi. Recently I had to move the website you are currently reading to a new server. I took this opportunity to consider moving to a new stack. Here is my feedback and an in-depth guide on how to do ...

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