[Django]-How do you deploy a flask or django application using jwilder/nginx-proxy?

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Personally, I prefer to have Django have one container, NGINX in separate container, other applications in other containers etc. For that I prefer to use docker-compose. You can checkout my implementation about using Django + NGINX + PostgreSQL in here.(I have not used jwilder/nginx-proxy, instead I have used official NGINX docker image)

But putting NGINX and Python server in same container does not sound that bad. I have used a lightweight alpine based images for deploying python, for example:

FROM nginx:mainline-alpine

# --- Python Installation ---
RUN apk add --no-cache python3 && \
    python3 -m ensurepip && \
    rm -r /usr/lib/python*/ensurepip && \
    pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools && \
    if [ ! -e /usr/bin/pip ]; then ln -s pip3 /usr/bin/pip ; fi && \
    if [[ ! -e /usr/bin/python ]]; then ln -sf /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python; fi && \
    rm -r /root/.cache

# --- Work Directory ---
WORKDIR /usr/src/app

# --- Python Setup ---
ADD . .
RUN pip install -r app/requirements.pip

# --- Nginx Setup ---
COPY config/nginx/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/
RUN chmod g+rwx /var/cache/nginx /var/run /var/log/nginx
RUN chgrp -R root /var/cache/nginx
RUN sed -i.bak 's/^user/#user/' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
RUN addgroup nginx root

# --- Expose and CMD ---
EXPOSE 5000
CMD gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:5000 wsgi --chdir /usr/src/app/app & nginx -g "daemon off;"

Although it looks bit messy, but it works fine. Please checkout my full implementation at here.

Depending on how you want to deploy docker images, you can use either approaches. But using docker compose would be the best solution IMHO. And in both setups, you can use NGINX to serve your static contents(no need to configure it for each static file).

👤ruddra

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