Docker config files for running python project on server using docker

.env

# App port. Specifies port for appserver
PORT=8000

Readme.md

Docker config files for running python project on server using docker

1. To build the app container

docker-compose build

2. To start the container

docker-compose up -d

Step 1 & 2 combined: To rebbuild and start

You can both build and start the up. This will also rebuild if the container is already existing, and you have made changes to the app

docker-compose up -d --build

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

services:
  ### Pythoon App Container ###########################

  web:
    build:
      context: ./
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: "python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"
    ports:
      - ${PORT}:8000
    volumes:
      - .:/pos
    networks:
      - frontend

### Networks Setup ############################################

networks:
  frontend:
    driver: "bridge"

Dockerfile

# Python support can be specified down to the minor or micro version
# (e.g. 3.6 or 3.6.3).
# OS Support also exists for jessie & stretch (slim and full).
# See https://hub.docker.com/r/library/python/ for all supported Python
# tags from Docker Hub.
FROM python:3.11-bullseye

# Here working directory is "/pos" because my django project is in "pos" folder. 
# Change this to match your project folder name
WORKDIR /pos
COPY requirements.txt /pos/

RUN apt-get -y install libpq-dev \
    && apt-get clean

# Using pip:
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt