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Deploying a Django + Nginx application to a VPS with ansible

17th October 2023 / Vuyisile

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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How to automate creating a Django super user

11th October 2021 / Vuyisile

Setting up a Django super user may be a requirement in your test setup code. The commands used to create

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Setting up Django for Deployment: Nginx

21st June 2021 / Vuyisile

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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Setting up Django for Deployment: Gunicorn

7th June 2021 / Vuyisile

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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How to flatten a list of lists in Python

21st December 2020 / Vuyisile

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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