How to Deploy a Django Application With Kubernetes

Deploy a scalable Django app into a Kubernetes cluster

In this tutorial, we’ll deploy a containerized Django application with Kubernetes (K8s).

Django is a Python-based free and open-source web framework that follows the model–template–views architectural pattern.

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Step 1 — Containerize our Application with Docker

Let’s create a new Django application:

$django-admin startproject djangokubernetesproject

Navigate to the djangokubernetesproject directory:

$cd djangokubernetesproject

After that, we need to create a new Dockerfile which Docker will use to build our container image:

$vim Dockerfile

Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu:20.04
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y tzdata && apt install -y python3.8 python3-pip
RUN apt install python3-dev libpq-dev nginx -y
RUN pip install django gunicorn psycopg2