Our python buildpack installs libraries specified in your project’s requirements.txt file. GeoDjango may be a problem as it looks to depend on C-libraries which are not installed as part of the base image. We can explore adding this functionality in the future, but in the meantime I would recommend adding a Dockerfile to your repository.

While this tutorial isn’t specific to App Platform, Step 6 describes how to configure a Dockerfile for a Django project. When creating an application in App Platform, we will build and run the image from a Dockerfile (named Dockerfile) if we find one in the root of the project.