Deploying Django application on VPS

The django project is scafolded using Cookiecutter.

Following changes are made:

• Create a common compose file, which includes postgres, traefik etc.
• These are common containers for all apps in the VPS
• Named the volumes, created a network, ‘include’ common compose in production compose file
• All services are set to the new network, django instances are to be named uniquely
• Login to postgres shell, psql, and manually create a DB for the project
• VPS setup is stored as a seperate Git repo, for reproducability
• Brevo setup for transactional emails, which also required domain verification
• Sentry also used for application monitoring
• The static files are served with whitenoise, without CDNs
• Media files are served from Cloudflare R2 private repo
• Upload was smooth, but for viewing, signed URLs were required
• The default cookiecutter AWS option, generates some incorrect options for the Cloudflare R2
• Removed AWS cli container from production compose file
• Hetzner VPS is setuped. It is chosen, as it is much cheaper than AWS lightsnail.
• Firewall setup at VPS using ufw. Source cloned from git. Secrets copied over ssh.