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Does DO App Platform support GeoDjango and PostGIS (+ required libraries)?

I’ve seen that DO App Platform support Django applications, but I haven’t found any information about its geographic extension, GeoDjango. I would use it together with Postgres that requires GEOS, GDAL, PROJ.4, PostGIS installed. Any information on this?

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Common Knowledge • May 24, 2021

Just to add that Digital Ocean’s “managed database” offering does seem to support Postgres extensions like postgis. Here’s a full list and instructions on how to enable them: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/resources/supported-extensions/#supported-extensions

Cody Baker • November 27, 2020

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.