/docker-compose-two-django-rest

Implement 2 docker containers with docker compose communicating using a REST api and 2 different django projects.

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

About

This project implements 2 containers. The first container (api) provides a rest api to access a local database. The other container (web) uses requests python library to submit get and post requests to the api container.

I advice looking into the docker-compose.yml and views.py files to understand the communication.

Depentencies

  • Docker
  • Python (for development)
  • Pip (for development)
  • Python venv (for development)

To run:

  1. Adjust app/app/ and api/api/ settings.py files to accept the IP of the machine from which you want to connect

  2. Start the enviroment with docker

# Bring the containers up
CURRENT_UID=$(id -u):$(id -g) docker-compose up --build
  1. Test the server
# Address of the website (web container) it server on the port 80
http://localhost

# Address of the api (api container) it server on the port 8888
# No need to use this. This container is used by the web container
http://localhost:8888
  1. Stop the enviroment with docker
# Bring the containers down
docker-compose down -v --remove-orphans
  1. Check the views.py files to understand how we are using the Rest api.

To develop

# On the root folder
python3 -m venv env
pip install -r requirements.tx

Extending the development enviroment

# Creting envs
source env/bin/activate
pip install django==3.0 # Or other apps you find usefull
pip install djangorestframework

pip run pip freeze  > requirements.txt

Acknowledgements

The API code developed here borrows on the ideas of the following projects: