I am deploying a Django app to Azure Webapp, which does everything automatically. I have set it up so when I push to a specific Github branch, it is deployed and everything works. If I have to run a migration, I must login via SSH and run it manually (which is not perfect but I can accept it).
However, I need to use django-background-tasks, which needs to have a command running constantly listen for new tasks. I can't find a way to run this on every deployment. I found some documentation but most of it is for Node apps, it seems. For example, following some (oudated) tutoriales, I logged into {myapp}.scm.azurewebsites.net but I didnt find any "Download deployment scripts", which it seemed to be the proper way to do it.
Is there a way to set up some commands to run on deployment (without changing my current setup of deploy directly from Github using Github actions)? Or I have to do it manually?
Well, if someone is looking how to do it, I found the solution.
Create a startup file (sh), add the first line the gunicorn instruction and after that your own custom commands.
Here is explained: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/python/tutorial-deploy-app-service-on-linux-04#create-a-startup-file
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Recently I have started a Django server on Azure Web App Service, now I want to add a usage of "ChromoDriver" for web scraping, I have noticed that for that I need to install some additional Linux packages (not python) on the machine. the problem is that it gets erased on every deployment, does it mean that I should switch to Docker ?
Container works, but you can also try to pull down the additional packages in the custom start up file without messing around the machine after the deployment
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/python/tutorial-deploy-app-service-on-linux-04
I set up my Selenium project (Maven, Java, TestNG) in GitHub repo and it is connected to Jenkins. I am able to execute the Maven project via Jenkins and do the testing. This requires all dependant tools (Maven,Java,Jenkins) set up in my local machine.
But we have a requirement to do this in the cloud. I know we can use Selenium Grid-Docker, BrowserStack or GCP to execute the tests in the cloud but what we need is to have everything installed in the cloud and any external user with access being able to execute any test via UI or executable file without installing anything in user's local machine.
Is this possible at all? If yes,how?
I searched a lot and couldn't find anything. One of my friends said it can be done using AWS but doesn't know how. I just need guidance on the path to take here and I'm willing to learn and implement it myself.
Solved this my deploying code to AWS-EC2.
Here's what I did.
I created a TestNG-Maven project and uploaded to GitHub. Then created a AWS-EC2 t2.micro linux instance and installed Chrome and Jenkins in it. I accessed Jenkins from my local machine and connected it to GitHub repo. From Jenkins when I build the project everything was getting downloaded in EC2 and execution happened in EC2. This will be chrome-headless execution.
I'm trying to run a Django app on Google Cloud Run. The site itself works nicely, can run migrations and collect static assets via a startup script. The one thing I cannot figure out how to do is create a superuser. This requires interactively typing in a password or at least setting it via a django shell. I currently cannot figure out how to do this and it seems like it might not be possible; which would make Cloud Run unusable for Django. Has anyone been able to achieve this or have a sustainable workaround? Thanks!
Instead of Django Shell use the api to create the superuser. Once you have the script make it part of the container build process.
I am struggling about how to upload my Cloud Code files that i had on Parse.com to my Parse Server hosted on AWS EB.
So far i have:
Parse Server hosted on AWS EB. To host it on AWS i used the Orange Deploy Button which basically makes all stuff easier for people without having to install the Parse Server locally and upload it later to AWS.
iOS App written in objective C connected to the Parse server and working perfectly
Parse Dashboard locally on my mac connected to the Parse Server on AWS
The only thing that i would need is to upload all my cloud code files to the Parse Server. How could i do this? I have researched a lot over Google, stackoverflow, etc without success. There is some information but its unclear. Thanks in advance.
Finally and thanks to Ran Hassid i now have a Fully functional Parse Server on AWS with Cloud Code. For those who are in the same situation where i was, here is the answer to my question:
Go to this link here and follow all the steps (By the time i asked the question, the information provided by this link of AWS wasn't that clear as it is now. They improved the explanations and the info.)
After you finish all the previous steps from the link. You would have a Parse Server on AWS working.
Now the part of CLOUD CODE. Just create a folder in your MAC or PC wherever you like. Let's say on the desktop and called it Parse Server AWS (You can call it whatever you want)
Install the EB CLI which is the Command line interface to user Terminal (On Mac) or the equivalent on windows to work with the parse server you just set up on AWS (Similar to CloudCode with Parse CLI). The easy way to install it is running this command:
brew install awsebcli
Now open terminal on mac (or the equivalent on windows) and go to the folder that you just created on the step 3.
Run the next command. It will ask you to select the location of your parse server, and then the name.
eb init
Now this command. It will download all the files from AWS of your parse server to this folder you are in.
eb labs download
Finally, you will have a folder called Cloud where you can put all your cloud code files in.
When you finish just run the command:
eb deploy
Now you have your parse server with all your cloud code files working on AWS.
Now any change you need to make to your cloudCode files, just change the local files inside this folder just created on step 3 and run again the command from the step 9. Just exactly as you used to do with Parse Deploy command
Hopefully this information will help many people as it helped to me.
Have a happy coding!
parse-server cloud code is a bit different from Parse.com cloud code. In Parse.com we use the Parse CLI in order to modify and deploy our cloud code (parse deploy ...) in parse-server your cloud code exist under the following path of your parse project ./cloud/main.js* so your cloud code endpoint is the main.js file which by default located under the **cloud folder of your parse project. If you really want you can change this path but to keep it simple use the default location.
Now about deployment. in parse-server you need to redeploy your parse server again when you do some modification to your cloud code. Another option is to edit your cloud code remotely but from my POV its better to redeploy it
I'm attempting to deploy a Django app via docker, first locally, and then to a cloud server. I could not find an answer to my initial question before I attempt this: if I run docker-machine create, I'm guessing this should be run from within my virtualenv, right?
This would then grab all of my specific app dependencies, and begin to build certificates to throw in the container? If not, please explain otherwise..
Yes you are correct.
I will try to help you by my experience, if you wanna deploy django apps via docker.
First you need to setup docker machine in your local machine. Please see the
instruction. By default driver that will be used is --driver
virtualbox default.
List what kind of specifics dependencies images of your apps. Ex:
you need nginx, postgres, uwsgi, or you need to fetch an image then
modified that image you can use dockerfile (its the best practice
for you).
I suggested you to use docker-compose. Really its make our project
pretty easy to manage. You have to define all images that you need
for your app in docker-compose file Please read this reference.
After you finished develop your app then you want to deploy in production server (cloud) you just need to copy all your project then running your docker-compose. All images dependencies will be automatically pulled in the cloud.
As a reference, you can see this project (this is an open source project that I developed.) On that project, I use make file to manage docker-compose command and it make easy to manage.
An example of dockerfile
An example of docker-compose.yml
An example of Makefile
Hope this will help you.