App Platform for Django App

Your setup does not include Nginx at all. Can you run a prod application with only Gunicorn?

This may help as well; I put together an app spec YAML that models a Django app with a service, static site for staticfiles, migration job, and DB:

name: sample-django
services:
- name: server
  github:
    repo: digitalocean/sample-django
    branch: static
    deploy_on_push: true
  run_command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:${PORT:-8080}
  envs:
  - key: DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC
    value: "1"
    scope: BUILD_TIME
  - key: DATABASE_URL
    value: "${db.DATABASE_URL}"
    scope: RUN_TIME
  - key: DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS
    value: "${APP_DOMAIN}"
    scope: RUN_TIME
jobs:
- name: migrate
  kind: PRE_DEPLOY
  github:
    repo: digitalocean/sample-django
    branch: static
    deploy_on_push: true
  run_command: python manage.py migrate
  envs:
  - key: DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC
    value: "1"
    scope: BUILD_TIME
  - key: DATABASE_URL
    value: "${db.DATABASE_URL}"
    scope: RUN_TIME
static_sites:
- name: static
  github:
    repo: digitalocean/sample-django
    branch: static
    deploy_on_push: true
  # This happens as part of the Python/DJango buildpack:
  # build_command: python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
  output_dir: staticfiles
  routes:
  - path: /static
databases:
# Create a new dev DB:
- name: db
  engine: PG
  version: "12"
# Or bring an existing DB:
# - name: db
#   production: true
#   cluster_name: mydb
#   engine: PG
#   version: "12"

This can be submitted using doctl with:

doctl apps create --spec .do/app.yaml

Hello @idiallo

Yes, it’s possible to host a Django app in App Platform. We have a sample Django app in our GitHub repo which you can consider as an example and make necessary changes in your app:

https://github.com/digitalocean/sample-django

Please note that at least one of the requirements.txt, Pipfile, and setup.py must be located in the root directory of the repo.

Here’s the documentation for more information: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/languages-frameworks/python/

Static files are served using global CDN and there is no specific configuration done in the webserver for static files.

Cheers,

Dikshith