Docker compose with multiple Dockfiles and images (Django+Angular) - django

I'm building an app that uses Django and Angular that is split up into two different repositories and docker images.
My file structure is:
.
docker-compose.yml
djangoapp/
Dockerfile
manage.py
...
angularapp/
Dockerfile
...
I've been unable to get it to work properly, all documentation I found on this seem to expect you to have the docker-compose.yml file together with the DockerFile.
I've tried multiple different variations but my current (not working) docker-compose.yml file looks like this:
version : '3'
services:
web:
build: ./djangoapp
command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
ports:
- "8000:8000"
This gives me error can't open file 'manage.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory.
If I go into the djangoapp/ directory and create a docker-compose.yml file there according to the offical Docker docs, it works fine. So it's nothing wrong with the actual build, the issue is accessing it from outside like I'm trying to do.
Update: I also decided to add my Dockerfile located at ./djangoapp/Dockerfile.
FROM python:3
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
RUN mkdir /code
WORKDIR /code
ADD requirements.txt /code/
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
ADD . /code/

From what I can see it seems just to be a simple typo
version : '3'
services:
web:
build: ./djangoapp
command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
ports:
- "8000:8000"
That ./ is all your missing I think. I'm pretty sure without it the docker compose file doesn't go into the directory specified.
Update
Now that I saw your Dockerfile, I've noticed that you havent added the manage.py to your container. The same way you added your requirements.txt is what you need to do with the manage.py. When a Docker container is built, it only has what you give it plus any other file structure it has from the base Image.
You can either add it in the Dockerfile or you can have a shared volume between a local directory and a container directory. I think adding it in the Dockerfile would be easiest though.

This issue was solved by rebuilding my Docker image with docker-compose build web command. Seems like at the stage when I was having the error, that build didn't include the files needed. So in the code that I show above in the question post, nothing is wrong, it just needed to be rebuild.

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Hot reload in Django app inside docker containers not working

So today is my first day ever to use docker, I tried use it many times but I noticed that hot reload does not work
I opened the container using vscode and navigate through the files and tried changing files and nothing happens
here's Dockerfile
FROM python:3.8-slim-buster
WORKDIR /usr/project
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
COPY . .
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
and here's docker-compose.yml
version: '3.7'
services:
web:
restart : always
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile
command: sh -c "python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"
ports:
- "8000:8000"
env_file:
- .env
volumes:
- .:/user/project
even unchecked docker-compose 2 from desktop docker and restarted the app and the containers, still nothing happens, so what am I doing wrong?
I kind of figured it out, apparently I was using docker wrong
I was using docker-compose run instead of docker-compose up
and I had a typo, I copied the code to a dir use and mounted another dir user :"D

docker-compose doesn't mount volumes correct for django container

Running Docker on Windows 10 with WSL 2 Ubuntu on it. I have the following Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu
#base directory
ENV HOME /root
#subdirectory name for the REST project
ENV PROJECT_NAME django_project
#subdirectory name of the users app
ENV APP_NAME users
#set the working directory
WORKDIR $HOME
#install Python 3, the Django REST framework and the Cassandra Python driver
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt -y install python3-pip 2> /dev/null
RUN pip3 install djangorestframework
RUN pip3 install cassandra-driver
#initialize the project (blank project) and creates a folder called $PROJECT_NAME
#with manager.py on its root directory
RUN django-admin startproject $PROJECT_NAME .
#install an app in the project and create a folder named after it
RUN python3 manage.py startapp $APP_NAME
ENV CASSANDRA_SEEDS cas1
ENTRYPOINT ["python3","manage.py", "runserver", "0.0.0.0:8000"]
I build a image with docker build -t django-img . and then I have the following .yaml:
version: '3'
services:
django_c:
container_name: django_c
image: django-img
environment:
- CASSANDRA_SEEDS='cas1'
ports:
- '8000:8000'
volumes:
- /mnt/c/Users/claud/docker-env/django/django_project:/django_project
When I run docker-compose up -d inside django-project folder (.yml and Dockerfile are there), I get the container running, but I can't see in the host any file from the container. If I run ls in the container, however, I see all files are there:
How am I supposed to edit the container files using an editor in my host?
p.s.: I've already tested the volume slashes ("/") with another container and they work fine since I'm using WSL.
ADDITION
Here the content of my container folders using relative paths, I tried
volumes:
- /mnt/c/Users/claud/docker-env/django/django_project:/root/django_project
but it still did not show the files in the host.
I think the issue is that your volume mount refers to the absolute path /django_project, but you specify WORKDIR $HOME which is /root in your Dockerfile. An additional clue is that you see your files when you ls -la ./django_project in the container using a relative path.
I'll bet you can fix the problem by updating your docker-compose.yml django_c service definition to specify /root/django_project as your volume mount instead:
volumes:
- /mnt/c/Users/claud/docker-env/django/django_project:/root/django_project

Building on Docker Hub ignores context path when copying files

I am trying to upload a Django app to Docker Hub. On the local machine (Ubuntu 18.04) everything works fine, but on Docker Hub there is an issue that the requirements.txt file cannot be found.
Local machine:
sudo docker-compose build --no-cache
Result (it's okay):
Step 5/7 : COPY . .
---> 5542d55caeae
Step 6/7 : RUN file="$(ls -1 )" && echo $file
---> Running in b85a55aa2640
Dockerfile db.sqlite3 hello_django manage.py requirements.txt venv
Removing intermediate container b85a55aa2640
---> 532e91546d41
Step 7/7 : RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
---> Running in e940ebf96023
Collecting Django==3.2.2....
But, Docker Hub:
Step 5/7 : COPY . .
---> 852fa937cb0a
Step 6/7 : RUN file="$(ls -1 )" && echo $file
---> Running in 281d9580d608
README.md app config docker-compose.yml
Removing intermediate container 281d9580d608
---> 99eaafb1a55d
Step 7/7 : RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
---> Running in d0e180d83772
[91mERROR: Could not open requirements file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'requirements.txt'
Removing intermediate container d0e180d83772
The command '/bin/sh -c pip install -r requirements.txt' returned a non-zero code: 1
app/Dockerfile
FROM python:3.8.3-alpine
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
WORKDIR /code
COPY . .
RUN file="$(ls -1 )" && echo $file
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
docker-composer.yml
version: '3'
services:
web:
build:
context: app
dockerfile: Dockerfile
volumes:
- ./app/:/code/
ports:
- "8000:8000"
env_file:
- ./config/.env.dev
command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
Project Structure:
UPDATE:
Docker is building from Github.
File requirements.txt is in the GitHub repository (app folder), but for some reason during build Docker Hub copies files from the project root folder and not the contents of the app folder.
Github:
https://github.com/sigalglebru/django-on-docker
The problem is that you need to tell Docker Hub where to find your build context.
When you run docker-compose build locally, docker-compose reads your docker-compose.yml file and knows to build inside the app directory, because you've explicitly set the build context:
build:
context: app
dockerfile: Dockerfile
When you build on Docker Hub, by default it will assume the build
context is the top level of your repository. If you set the path to
your Dockerfile to, e.g., app/Dockerfile, this is equivalent to
running:
docker build -f app/Dockerfile .
If you try that, you'll see if fail the same way. Rather than setting
the path to the Dockerfile, you need to set the path to the build
context to the app directory. For example:
(Look at the "Build Context" column).
When configured correct, your repository builds on Docker Hub without errors.
Thank you, I found solution:
I just copied files from./app to the mounted volume, and little changed context, but still don't understand why it worked fine on the local machine
Dockerfile:
FROM python:3.8.3-alpine
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
WORKDIR /code
COPY ./app .
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
docker-compose.yml
version: "3.6"
services:
python:
restart: always
build:
context: .
dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile
expose:
- 8000
ports:
- 8000:8000
command: "python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"

Docker Compose and Django app using AWS Lighstail containers fail to deploy

I'm trying to get a Django application running on the latest version of Lightsail which supports deploying docker containers as of Nov 2020 (AWS Lightsail Container Announcement).
I've created a very small Django application to test this out. However, my container deployment continues to get stuck and fail.
Here are the only logs I'm able to see:
This is my Dockerfile:
FROM python:3
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
WORKDIR /code
COPY requirements.txt /code/
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
COPY . /code/
And this is my docker-compose.yml:
version: "3.9"
services:
db:
image: postgres
environment:
- POSTGRES_DB=postgres
- POSTGRES_USER=postgres
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
web:
build: .
image: argylehacker/app-stats:latest
command: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
volumes:
- .:/code
ports:
- "8000:8000"
depends_on:
- db
I'm wondering a few things:
Right now I'm only uploading the web container to Lightsail. Should I also be uploading the db container?
Should I create a postgres database in Lightsail and connect to it first?
Do I need to tell Django to run the db migrations before the application starts?
Is there a way to enable more logs from the containers? Or does the lack of logs mean that the containers aren't even able to start.
Thanks for the help!
Docker
This problem stemmed from a bad understanding of Docker. I was previously trying to include image: argylehacker/app-stats:latest in my docker-compose.yml to upload the web container to DockerHub. This is the wrong way of going about things. From what I understand now, docker-compose is most helpful for orchestrating your local environment rather than creating docker images that can be run in containers.
The most important thing is to upload a container to Lightsail that can start your server. When you're using Docker this can be specified using the CMD and the end of your Dockerfile. In my case I needed to add this line to my Dockerfile:
CMD ["python", "manage.py", "runserver", "0.0.0.0:8000"]
So now it looks like this:
FROM python:3
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
WORKDIR /code
COPY requirements.txt /code/
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
COPY . /code/
CMD ["python", "manage.py", "runserver", "2.0.0.0:8000"]
Finally, I removed the image: argylehacker/app-stats:latest line from my docker-compose.yml file.
At this point you should be able to:
Build your container docker build -t argylehacker/app-stats:latest .
Upload it to DockerHub docker push argylehacker/app-stats:latest
Deploy it in AWS Lightsail pointing to argylehacker/app-stats:latest
Troubleshooting
I got stuck on this because I couldn't see any meaningful logs in the Lightsail log terminal. This was because my container wasn't actually running anything.
In order to get debug this locally I took the following steps
Build the image docker build -t argylehacker/app-stats:latest .
Run the container docker run -it --rm -p 8000:8000 argylehacker/app-stats:latest.
At this point docker should be running the container and you can view the logs. This is exactly what Lightsail is going to do when it runs your container.
Answers to my Original Questions
The Dockerfil is very different than a docker-compose file used to compose services. The purpose of docker-compose is to coordinate containers, vs a Dockerfile will define how an image is built. All you need to do for Lightsail is build the image docker build <container>:<tag>
Yes, you'll need to create a Postgres database in AWS Lightsail so that Django can connect to a database and run. You'll modify the settings.py file to include the database credentails once it is available in Lightsail.
Still tracking down the best way to run the db migrations
The lack of logs was because the Dockerfile wasn't starting Django

Python 3.8-alpine docker compose failing

I have been running an app without docker and have just added in Dockerfile and docker-compose.
The issue I am having is that after I successfuly build the app, runserver produces the below error when I run either that or migrate.
➜ app git:(master) sudo docker-compose run app sh -c "python manage.py runserver"
Error loading shared library libpython3.8.so.1.0: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/local/bin/python)
Error relocating /usr/local/bin/python: Py_BytesMain: symbol not found
failed to resize tty, using default size
%
➜ app git:(master) sudo docker-compose run app sh -c "python manage.py migrate"
Error loading shared library libpython3.8.so.1.0: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/local/bin/python)
Error relocating /usr/local/bin/python: Py_BytesMain: symbol not found
Dockerfile
FROM python:3.8-alpine
MAINTAINER realize-sec
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
COPY requirements.txt /requirements.txt
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
RUN mkdir /app
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./app /app
RUN adduser -D user
USER user
docker-compose.yml
version: "3"
services:
app:
build:
context: ""
ports:
- "8000:8000"
volumes:
- ./app:/app
command: >
sh -c "python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"
What am I doing wrong that is causing this?
When I run without docker using python3 manage.py runserver it works fine.
Because I haven’t tested the build, I don’t know whether any of these things will help you to ultimately build your containers, however here are some observations to hopefully set you on the right path.
Your context is a null string and is usually a dot (.)
You typically finish the Dockerfile with the following command:
CMD [ "python3", "manage.py", "runserver", "0.0.0.0:8000" ]
So you can remove that from your compose file.
Other than that, on a more general note, although Alpine images are small, they are prone to breaking because of the additional dependencies and packages that you need to add/remove. You’re probably better off with going for the slim version overall. The original build will take a bit longer but it will be more manageable.
Also, if you’re running a modern version of Docker on your machine, then you can move the syntax version of the compose file to version 3.7 or 3.8, depending upon your version of Docker.