AWS CI/CD DJANGO

Overview

This repository is for a tutorial on how to implement Django CI/CD Pipeline in AWS. It contains important scripts needed to carry out both CI and CD operations respectively on AWS throoug CodeBuild and CodeDeploy

CodeBuild

The script for running builds and tests for your application is the buildspec.yml file.

CodeDeploy

The script for running automated deployments to your server is the appspec.ymL file. This script contains paths to important scripts needed for the automated deployment These scripts are described in-depth below

Gunicorn

Gunicorn is an important component needed for deploying a django application to a server. The configurations for the gunicorn service file is located in /gunicorn/gunicorn.service

Nginx

Nginx is also an essential component needed for deploying a django application to a server. The configurations for the nginx configuration file is located in /nginx/nginx.conf

Scripts

The scripts folder holds scripts that are needed to automate the deployment. Each script runs an important task that ultimately leads to the successfull deployment of your application I will explain the use of each script below.

• clean_instance.sh : This script clears all files and directory in the path scpecified
• instance_os_dependencies.sh : This script installs the linux packages needed for the deployment of our application such as nginx, python3, python3-pip, etc.
• python_dependencies.sh : This script helps create a virtual environment, activates it, and installs the dependencies from the requirements.txt file specified
• gunicorn.sh : This script copies the specified gunicorn service to a gunicorn service on the server, starts the gunicorn service, and enables it.
• nginx.sh : This script copies the nginx configuration on our repository to another nginx configuration file on our server, and starts the nginx xervice.
• start_app.sh : This script edits the settings.py of your django project, adding the ip-address of your server to the ALLOWED_HOSTS list, and then restarts both the nginx and gunincorn services so the changes can take effect
• after_install.sh : This is a script that runs after the other scripts are successful.

Conclusion

This is a simple CI/CD Django Pipeline repository that contains information and guides that helps explain the important scripts needed to setup a Django CI/CD Pipeline on AWS.

Contributions are welcome as well.