On 27 January 2024, the Bulawayo Python community held its inaugural meetup to improve project collaboration. Organizers sought to transition from a joke-filled WhatsApp group to more empathetic, constructive engagements, with plans for regular meetups. Thirty participants gathered at Bulawayo TechHub, discussing and contributing to an open-source social networking project.
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The article explains the steps for deploying a Django + Nginx application on an AWS Lightsail Virtual Private Server (VPS) with Docker and Ansible automation. This article will guide you through setting up a VPS instance, domain linking, server configuration with Ansible, securing the server, setting up SSL/TLS certificates, and finally, deploying the application. As part of the process, you’ll see how to run setup and deployment playbooks on a server, culminating in a live Django + Nginx project with HTTPS functionality.
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Setting up a Django super user may be a requirement in your test setup code. The commands used to create users are interactive by default and unfortunately do not allow you to pass in the user’s password as an argument or a flag on the command line. This is a security measure, but it isn’t
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In this post I’ll show you how to encrypt and decrypt strings using the AWS Encryption SDK and AWS KMS. Step 1: Install the AWS SDK for Python and the Encryption SDK You’ll need boto3 to create a Master Key programmatically and the aws-encryption-sdk for encrypting and decrypting data. Step 2: Add AWS credentials to
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This post explains how to install and setup nginx as a reverse proxy to gunicorn and web server to serve static files in Django.
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Web Servers like Apache or NGINX are great for handling HTTP requests. Unfortunately,they typically cannot communicate with Python applications directly. That is where gunicorn comes in.
Learn how to install, configure and run gunicorn with Django in this article.
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In this post, I cover a couple of ways to flatten lists of lists or lists of mixed data in standard Python and 3rd party libraries such as Django, Pandas and Matplotlib.
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Authenticating with Django REST APIs using HTTP Client
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Have you ever wondered if it is possible to connect Django to more than one database at a time? Read this post to find out how.
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Learn how to serialize MongoDB ObjectId data types in Python.