Purpose

This is a project template that provides a production-ready reference implementation for commonly used features:

• Reverse-proxy with automatic HTTPS encryption via LetsEncrypt

If you follow my blog then you will know that I am a big believer in Django and a supporting ecosystem around that framework.

Principles

• 12-factor ready
• Simplicity, with a path forward for scaling the parts you need.
• Single developer friendly
• Single machine friendly
• Optimize for developer speed

Docker

• building and running locally
• building and running remotely
• pushing to private repo
• docker-compose local
• docker-compose production
  • with docker labels

Django

• my patterns for config/ folder
• pickup environment vars from .env in settings.py file
• support libraries (see blog)

Minimal Javascript (because I dont like it)

• This is a personal thing.

Traefik configuration for the reverse proxy Extras

• Twilio
• sentry
• Sendgrid
• Makefiles for CLI Productivity
• how I like to setup pycharm for local debugging

Other blueprints/cookie-cutters

• mention cookie cutter
• pydanny
• does awesome cookie-cutter exist?

Future considerations:

• include a risk assessment for ISO 27001 / 27005 level applications
• include ansible / cloud-init scripts for standing up the hosting server

Video / instructions on how to setup pycharms with screenshots

Patterns

• Skip celery. Use a database and django commands as reliable, robust, and easily understood workers
  • their work would be idempotent, which means that repeat processes will not break things