Deploy scripts & infrastructure as code for Django in production
Scripting servers and releases so they are repeatable: Bash, Fabric, Ansible, Terraform, and cloud-init.
Automation replaces a person remembering steps with something that runs them the same way every time: a deploy script, Fabric or Ansible, cloud-init, or Terraform.
The guides show where each tool fits: Terraform builds servers, cloud-init and Ansible configure them, and a script or pipeline ships releases.
Set it up
Guides that take this from nothing to running in production.
- Deploy Django with Ansible: Step-by-Step
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...
- Deploy Django with Fabric
Automate Django deployments over SSH with Fabric: a fabfile with release directories, dependency install, migrations, collectstatic, atomic symlink switch, health checks, and rollback.
- Provision a Django Server with cloud-init
Use cloud-init user data to provision a Django-ready Ubuntu server on first boot: users and SSH keys, packages, firewall, swap, directories, systemd units, and verification.
- Deploy Django from a Private Git Repository with Deploy Keys
Let a Django server pull code from a private GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository with read-only deploy keys: SSH config aliases, known_hosts, private dependencies, and alternatives.
- Provision Django Infrastructure With Pulumi
Provision Django infrastructure with Pulumi in Python: define a VPC, database, container service, and secrets as code, manage stacks for staging and production, keep secrets encrypted in config, and preview changes before applying.
- Deploy Django on AWS With the CDK
Deploy Django on AWS with the Cloud Development Kit in Python: an ApplicationLoadBalancedFargateService, RDS PostgreSQL, Secrets Manager, S3 media, and a migration task, with cdk diff and cdk deploy in CI.
- Deploy Django With git push and a post-receive Hook
Deploy Django to your own server with git push production main: a bare repository with a post-receive hook that checks out the code, installs dependencies, runs migrations and collectstatic, and reloads Gunicorn, with safe failure handling.
- Atomic Django Releases With Symlinked Release Directories
Deploy Django with timestamped release directories and an atomic current symlink: build each release in isolation, share media and env files, switch with ln -sfn, reload Gunicorn gracefully, and roll back instantly to the previous release.
- Encrypt Django Secrets in Git With SOPS
Keep Django environment secrets encrypted in the repository with Mozilla SOPS and age: encrypt .env and YAML files, decrypt during deploys with Ansible or CI, use cloud KMS keys for teams, and keep keys out of Git.
- Deploy Django on NixOS With a Declarative Configuration
Deploy Django on NixOS: define Gunicorn, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, and ACME certificates in configuration.nix, package the app with a Python environment, manage secrets with agenix or sops-nix, and roll back safely with generations.
- Deploy Django on HashiCorp Nomad
Deploy Django on HashiCorp Nomad: write a job with web, worker, and migration tasks, pull Docker images, inject secrets from Vault or Nomad Variables with templates, register services, route traffic through Traefik or Consul, and roll out safely.
- Manage Django Kubernetes Manifests With Kustomize Overlays
Structure Django Kubernetes manifests with Kustomize: a base with Deployment, Service, and migration Job, overlays for staging and production with replicas, resources, and hosts, image tags set from CI, ConfigMap generators with hash suffixes, and use with Argo CD.
Run it well
Tuning, reliability, and operations once it works.
- Manual vs Automated Django Deployment: When to Switch
Many Django teams start with a manual deployment process over SSH. That is normal: log into a Linux server, pull code, install dependencies, run migrations, collect static files...
- How to Write a Django Deployment Bash Script
A manual Django deployment often looks simple at first: SSH into a server, pull code, install dependencies, run migrations, collect static files, restart Gunicorn, and hope the...
- Provision a Django Server Baseline with Terraform
Manual server creation is one of the fastest ways to introduce deployment drift into a Django environment.
Check it
Review lists to run before launch or after a change.
- Django Project Handover Checklist
Hand over a production Django project cleanly: repository and access, infrastructure inventory, secrets rotation, deploy and rollback runbooks, backups and restore tests, monitoring, domains, and third-party accounts.