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Docker Image for Django Application (Alpine Based)

August 21, 2022

Infrastructure

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Apline based images have a huge advantage by it’s final size but in most cases in the Python world if neotiates by Python dependencies which takes too long to build project packages and final size sometimes may be greater than same image build on debian based image. But Apline still great solution for small Django applications to keep final image tiny.
This post written after the similar post related to the debian based image build proccess, so I wont specify here all environmental details and just provide few Dockerfile examples which you may to use for start.

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Docker Image for Django Application (Debian Based)

August 20, 2022

Infrastructure

docker

Docker is most reliable and flexible way to distribute your Django applications, it able to include entire environment settings, dependencies and application files to deploy it to the server or any cloud provider. This post show you a few examples how to build Docker image for your Django application, this will be based on Debian base images as it recommended option for Python applications, of course it could be build based on Alpine images but it mostly suitable for small apps because in most cases build time and final image size based on Alpine would be bigger than Debian based, more about issues with Alpine based images you can read here and here. ...