Deployment¶

Heroku¶

One-command deployment¶

Seven23 implements a one-command deployment configuration to allow dynamic scaling on cloud platforms.

make build

This is actually a script running four commands:

python manage.py test --settings seven23.settings_tests
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py collectstatic --no-input
python manage.py loaddata seven23/models/currency/fixtures/initial_data.json

Configuration¶

Deployed instance will access environment variables to configure itself. Should be done before any deployment.

DATABASE_URL            = postgresql://username:password@url:port/db
SECRET_KEY              = YOUR_SECRET_KEY
ALLOW_ACCOUNT_CREATION  = false
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID       = YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN    = YOUR_AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY   = YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = YOUR_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
CONTACT_EMAIL           = admin@seven23.io
EMAIL_HOST              = YOUR_EMAIL_HOST
EMAIL_HOST_USER         = YOUR_EMAIL_USER
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD     = YOUR_EMAIL_PASSWORD
MAIL_USE_TLS            = false
EMAIL_PORT              = 25
DEBUG                   = false

Using Docker and docker-compose¶

Seven23 provides a Dockerfile for building a container image.

Build the docker container from source:

docker build -t seven23_server . # or 'make docker-build'

Run the standalone application container:

docker run -p 8000:8000 -ti seven23_server

In addition a docker-compose setup is available which uses the following components:

app:	Main container: bundled seven23 django application using Gunicorn as application server
postgres:	PostgreSQL database server
nginx:	NGINX reverse web proxy in front of Gunicorn and for serving static assets directly to the user.

Run complete application stack using docker-compose:

docker-compose up # or 'make docker-run'

Note

A Docker Volume is used for sharing static assets from the application with the NGINX container.

As SaaS¶

To deploy as a SaaS service, you will need a few extra configuration values:

SAAS              = true
STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY = YOUR_STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY = YOUR_STRIPE_SECRET_KEY