Deploy Django
Step-by-step production deployment guides for Django, Nginx, and Gunicorn.
Best for developers moving from local setup to a reliable first production release.
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Foundations guides
Learn the concepts, tradeoffs, and prerequisites before you change production infrastructure.
When you deploy Django in production, you will see both WSGI and ASGI recommended.
Many Django deployments break because static files and media files are treated as the same thing.
Choosing the best hosting for Django deployment is not about finding the cheapest server or the most popular cloud.
Tasks guides
Follow actionable deployment and operations guides you can work through step by step.
A Dockerized Django app that works in development is not automatically safe for production.
It is easy to get a Django app running on Render, but it is also easy to ship an unsafe or incomplete production setup.
If you want to deploy Django on Railway, the main challenge is not just getting a container to start.
A Django app running over plain HTTP is not safe for production. Login sessions, admin access, CSRF tokens, API traffic, and password resets can all be exposed in transit if TLS...
Django does not safely serve static files in production by default. With DEBUG=False, you still need a production path for CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and images collected from your...
Connecting Django to PostgreSQL in production is more than changing the DATABASES setting.
Moving a Django app from local development to production usually fails on the same points: process management, reverse proxy configuration, static files, secrets, TLS, and safe...
If you want to deploy Django ASGI with Uvicorn and Nginx, python manage.py runserver is not a production option.
If you want to deploy Django with Caddy in production, the main challenge is not just putting a reverse proxy in front of the app.
Many Docker Compose examples for Django are built for local development, not production.
If you want to deploy Django on a DigitalOcean Droplet, you need more than python manage.py runserver.
To deploy Django on AWS EC2 reliably, you need more than python manage.py runserver.
A production-safe Fly.io Django deployment needs more than fly launch and fly deploy.
If you want to deploy Django on Google Cloud Run, the basic path is straightforward: build a container and run it. The production-safe part is where most deployments fail.
Running Gunicorn manually for a Django app is fragile. If your SSH session closes, the process can stop.
A production Django stack should not expose Gunicorn or Uvicorn directly to the internet.
Local disk storage for Django media files works in development, but it breaks quickly in production.
Moving a Django app from a local database or self-managed PostgreSQL server to a managed PostgreSQL service sounds simple: update the host, username, and password, then deploy.
Running background jobs in Django production is not just a matter of installing Celery and pointing it at Redis.
Running Celery workers manually in production is fragile. If you start a worker from a shell and disconnect, the process may stop.
Manual Django deployments usually fail in predictable ways: someone forgets to run migrations, static files are outdated, the wrong branch gets pushed to production, or a restar...
Manual Django deployment usually starts simple and becomes unreliable fast. You SSH into a server, pull code, install packages, update environment variables, run migrations, res...