Blogpy

Blogpy is a simple blog application written by Python3 & Django2.2. This project is for educational purposes with FREE video course which you can find on https://boby.cloud .

Demo

Final project preview.

Technologies used in this course

This project and video series are best practices for Backend Engineering with Python and Django and the most common technologies every backend engineer should know. Technologies used in this course are listed below.

Python 3.x - Programming Language
Django 2.2.x - Powerful Web Framework
Django Rest Framework - Web API's
Jinja2 - Template Engine
Gunicorn - WSGI HTTP Server
PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL Database
NginX - High performance web server
Docker - Container Platform
ArvanCloud - Integrated Cloud Infrastructure
GitHub - Version Control
TravisCI - Continues Integration and Deployment
Postman - API Testing

Installation

First clone or download this project.

$ git clone https://github.com/bobycloud/blogpy.git

Then create docker network and volumes as below.

$ docker volume create blogpy_postgresql
$ docker volume create blogpy_static_volume
$ docker volume create blogpy_files_volume

$ docker network create nginx_network
$ docker network create blogpy_network

You need to create .env file in the project root file with default values.

POSTGRES_USER=postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
POSTGRES_DB=postgres

Now run django and postgresql with docker-compose.

$ docker-compose up -d

Then run nginx container with docker-compose.

$ cd config/nginx/
$ docker-compose up -d

You can see blogpy web page on http://localhost, Template and API's are accessable by docker containers which you can see with below command.

$ docker ps -a

Output should be like this.

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES
fc6cc9d6d3d7        nginx_nginx         "nginx -g 'daemon of…"   2 hours ago         Up 2 hours          0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp       nginx
05103904dcb8        ae80efb17475        "gunicorn --chdir bl…"   2 hours ago         Up 2 hours          0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp   blogpy
4a183e90a9eb        postgres:10         "docker-entrypoint.s…"   2 hours ago         Up 2 hours          0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp   blogpy_postgresql

nginx container as common web server, blogpy container as django application and blogpy_postgresql as postgreSQL database container.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and will be fully credited. I'd be happy to accept PRs for template extending.

License