Containerizing a simple Django application with Docker and Docker Compose

 By LogRocket Blog - 2021-01-04

Description

We'll create a Dockerfile in order to containerize a Django app and we''ll set up docker-compose through a docker-compose.yml file.

Summary

  • January 4, 2021 4 min read1289 If you’ve been coding for a while now, you probably have heard of Docker or more fancy terms like containers.
  • In order to make use of the features that Docker Compose provides us, create a docker-compose.yml file in the same root folder as your Dockerfile and add the following code in it: 3' This tells Docker what version of docker-compose should be used to run our file.
  • If you want to shut down the container, open a new terminal and run docker-compose down.

 

Topics

  1. Backend (0.17)
  2. Frontend (0.07)
  3. NLP (0.04)

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