Question
Does DO App Platform support GeoDjango and PostGIS (+ required libraries)?
- Posted on November 26, 2020
- DjangoPython Frameworks
Asked by Al3xs
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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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-extensionsOur python buildpack installs libraries specified in your project’s
requirements.txtfile. 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.