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Deploying Django on Dokku

This Gist: http://is.gd/dokkudjango

DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/

Dokku: https://github.com/progrium/dokku

Dokku-Postgres: https://github.com/Kloadut/dokku-pg-plugin

Deploy a Droplet on DigitalOcean

Add an SSH key to DigitalOcean before hand to make SSHing into you new box easier and more secure.

1. Click "Create"
2. Enter hostname, select size and region
3. Select Ubuntu 13.04 x64 as the Image
4. Select your SSH key
5. Click "Create Droplet"

Setup DNS

1. Add a blank A Record pointing to the IP Address of your new Droplet
2. Add a wildcard (*) A Record pointing to the same domain to capture all of the subdomains.

Install Dokku

1. SSH into your Droplet. Just ssh [email protected] should work if you add an SSH Key. If not, DigitalOcean emailed you a root password.
2. Copy and Paste and oneline installer from the Dokku Repo README. Something like this wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/progrium/dokku/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo bash
3. Wait 5 minutes.
4. Associate an SSH key with a git user as the installer instruct you to. Something like this cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh [email protected] "gitreceive upload-key alex"

Install Dokku Postgres Plugin

Install the Postres Plugin. From inside your Droplet:

cd /var/lib/dokku/plugins
git clone https://github.com/Kloadut/dokku-pg-plugin
dokku plugins-install

Create a new container which contains Postgres.

dokku postgresql:create myapp