The Nice Thing About No One Reading

Sunday, July 05, 2020

This weekend was the most productive I have been in *ages* on this website. I had a very important realization: No one reads my blog, or my website, who cares if I mess it up? No one. So I dove in after becoming more proficent with Docker and managed to accomplish the following this weekend:

• Dockerized stevenramey.com
• Integrated Docker with pytest and django-pytest
• Added Nginx to my docker-compose.yaml
• Upgraded to Django3 using Daphne
• Started work on using Letsencrypt and Cerbot

Some useful links for the future:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42417919/deploy-to-docker-with-nginx-django-daphne
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/deployment/asgi/daphne
• https://github.com/jfloff/alpine-python/issues/44 (add libffi-dev for my requirements.txt)
• Briliant article on Nginx/Certbot: https://medium.com/@pentacent/nginx-and-lets-encrypt-with-docker-in-less-than-5-minutes-b4b8a60d3a71

Useful things to remember

• If you run into Nginx welcome page issues then delete then add RUN rm /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf to your (nginx:alpine) Dockerfile

Other nice things to remember

• Aliasing the following has been super helpful for productivity, no longer having to rely on recursive search: alias dcb="docker-compose build", alias dcu="docker-compose up", alias dcd="docker-compose down"