vagrant-django-postgres

Beginner-friendly starter files for a vagrant box running Django with PostgreSQL.

This assumes you've seperated requirements and settings into local, test, staging, production as in Two Scoops, and that your Django project root is src. You'll have to make a couple of minor changes if not.

System Dependencies

• VirtualBox with Guest Additions
• Vagrant
• vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
• vagrant plugin install vagrant-librarian-chef-nochef
• Windows only: Git, for using vagrant ssh on Windows easily

Configuration

The following environment variables are required, and taken care of by vagrant provisioning:

• DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings.local
• DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=YOUR_KEY

Before first run:

• In Vagrantfile, set your Project Configuration for Vagrant
• In bash/django_setup.sh, replace DATABASE_NAME and set your DJANGO_SECRET_KEY

Usage

First Run

1. vagrant up to start the VM and run initial provisioning
2. python src/manage.py createsuperuser to create a Django superuser
3. vagrant reload` to restart following the updates installed during provisioning

Subsequent Runs

1. vagrant up
2. vagrant ssh

Shell

• Use python src/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 to start the server.
• Append --settings=config.settings.local to use a particular settings file.