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MS SQL Server with Django / SQLAlchemy

After searching some up-to-date information about the state of MSSQL support for Python (web development purposes mainly), I decided to take a closer look just by testing with the most promising libraries. Well, for Django at least there was only one library that I could find that has received ...

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I've been using vim-fugitive for some time, but after its latest major update I started to dislike how it opens some views in new splits/buffers. I also had a project of figuring out what slows down my Vim, so I finally came up with simplified version of :Git command: https://gist.github.com ...

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Summary:

Environment consists of one Nginx container and Django containers. Nginx is used as reverse proxy to pass on traffic to Django.

Quick summary:

  • Create Docker containers
  • Django applications load environment files (.env) from S3
  • Test locally with docker compose
  • Initialize Elastic Beanstalk (EB) environment
  • Create Dockerrun.aws.json for EB
  • Write file on "leader ...

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I'm currently very excited about Zappa, mainly because of its ability to easily deploy Django to AWS Lambda. This post will be a collection of URLs to different tutorials and manuals about how to deploy Zappa and configure AWS VPC accordingly. I deployed https://www.kalakeitto.fi with it.

My main goal was to ...

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Prerequisities

  • Python 3
  • AWS account

Step by step

1. Start initial Django project with cookiecutter-django

cd ~/virtualenvs
python3 -m venv cookiecutter
source cookiecutter/bin/activate
pip install "cookiecutter>=1.4"
cd ~/django-projects
cookiecutter https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django

Cookiecutter will ask a bunch of questions, but for the sake of this tutorial set project_name and ...

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It's often best to check what is going to be deleted with obj.delete() before actually running it, and the way to do it can be found, for example, here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12158714/how-to-show-related-items-using-deleteview-in-django

TL;DR:

from django.contrib.admin.utils import NestedObjects
collector = NestedObjects(using='default')
collector.collect([obj])
collector.nested()