zappa-django-utils

Small utilities for making Zappa deployments slightly easier for Django applications.

This project was inspired by Edgar Roman's Zappa Django Guide.

Installation

Install via pip:

$ pip install zappa-django-utils

Add to your installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS += ('zappa_django_utils',)

Usage

Using an S3-Backed Database Engine

ZDU includes the ability to use s3sqlite, an S3-synced SQLite database as a Django database engine.

This will cause problems for applications with high loads of concurrent writes, but it scales very well for high-read applications that don't have concurrent writes (like CMSes), and it's orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS RDS.

To use this, in your Django project's settings.py file, add the following:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'zappa_django_utils.db.backends.s3sqlite',
        'NAME': 'sqlite.db',
        'BUCKET': 'your-db-bucket'
    }
}

And.. that's it!

Creating a Postgres Database

Once you have your RDS set up, your VPC/Subnet/Security Groups set up, and your DATABASES setting set up, you can create the database with:

$ zappa manage <stage> create_pg_db

Then you're ready to python manage.py makemigrations and zappa update; zappa manage migrate!

Creating a Default Admin User

You'll probably need a default user to manage your application with, so you can now:

$ zappa manage <stage> create_admin_user

Now log in with the information that gets returned and immediately change the admin user's email and password.

Creating/Dropping a Postgres Schema

You can create a Postgres schema with:

$ zappa manage create_pg_schema

and drop it with:

$ zappa manage drop_pg_schema

License

(c) 2017, Rich Jones, MIT License