Deploying Django Apps: Make Your Site Go Live

Learn how to deploy a Django application to the cloud using Digital Ocean, AWS, Heroku, or Azure. Walk through the deployment steps using each solution.

Introduction

• Making your site go live
• What you should know
• Choosing the right deployment for you

1. Digital Ocean

• Digital Ocean account
• Creating a droplet
• Securing your server
• Postgres setup
• Transferring code to the server
• Configuring settings files
• Testing deployment
• Gunicorn testing
• NGINX setup
• Connecting your URL

2. AWS

• AWS account
• Deploying to AWS
• Testing your site
• Database connection and setup
• Migrate
• S3 storage setup
• Static and media files
• Custom URL

3. Heroku

• Heroku account
• Deploying on Heroku
• Database on Heroku
• Static and media files
• Custom URL

4. Azure

• Azure account
• Database setup
• Transferring code to the server
• Configuring settings files
• Testing deployment
• Gunicorn testing
• NGINX setup
• Connecting your URL

Conclusion

• Next steps