Chartwerk on Docker

This project deploys the excellent django-chartwerk application using Docker and docker-compose. It uses a bare-bones configuration and is intended as a proof of concept, as well as an excuse for some self-study into the ways of Docker. Feedback is welcome!

Structure

The application is deployed as a series of services, which should run seamlessly on a local machine (in my case a Mac using OSX) and can be deployed to Amazon ECS with some additional configuration.

Nginx
PostgreSQL
Redis (for the Celery queue)
A Django-ready web application server

The local configuration will spin up a Postgres container, but in production you may want to use a persistent database like an RDS instance. You should add your database settings as environment variables, which by default live in config/env. Just be careful not to check those into Github.

Dependencies

The nice thing about deploying this app via Docker is that the only dependency should be Docker itself. You'll also want an AWS account and a couple utilities if you want to deploy this to the Internet.

Installation instructions for Docker and its associated utilities can be found here.

Quickstart

Once you have installed Docker and docker-compose, running the app locally is easy:

git clone https://github.com/cjdd3b/django-chartwerk-docker.git
cd django-chartwerk-docker
docker-compose build
docker-compose up

Then just visit 127.0.0.1:8000/chartwerk and it should be running. The app will then prompt you to login in. The default username and password are both admin.

Issues and next steps

Deploying to ECS requires writing a v2 docker-compose file, plus additional configuration. Would be good to demo that.
There seems to be an issue with the screenshotting functionality (see tickets)

Questions?

I'm at chase.davis@gmail.com