Pull a Fresh Debian Image#

Create a docker container from a Debian image, the following command can be used to pull a debain 11-slim image and create a container of it, also enter into the container in a interactive environment -it mode.

docker run -v $(pwd):/var/www --rm -it -p 8001:80 debian:11-slim

Create a Django App from Shell script#

Now, since we are inside a Debian container, we can enter a few commands, you can refer to the Mark Gibney’s GitHub repository for the script.

apt update

apt install wget

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/no-gravity/web_app_from_scratch/main/django.sh

Also, if you want to do a few adjustments, you can install an editor, get used to vim or use nano.

apt install vim 

OR

apt install nano

chmod +x django.sh
bash django.sh

I also have a few adjustment of the original script, that accepts a project name and creates a django project based on the positional parameter given to it. You can get it from the quick-setup-script repository or directly the script.

To use the above file, you need to execute the command as :

chmod +x django_docker.sh
bash django_docker.sh <project_name>

This will generate the project in the /var/www/ folder with the name of the project. The script will prompt you with a few things for setting up at some iterations like basic application setup , static file configuration, basic tempalte setup and the user authentication setup.

Copy the contents from the docker container#

You can copy the contents of the folder into your local machine by entering the cp command in docker.

docker cp <container_id>:/var/www/<project_name> /path/in_local_machine/

This will copy the project in the docker container into the local machine for you to extend and tweak it as per your needs.

That’s a basic Django Project Setup by using Docker with a Debian Image.