Openshift Django quickstart

This project is meant to be forked and used to quickly deploy a Django web application to an OpenShift cluster. It assumes you have access to an existing OpenShift installation.

You can use this as a starting point to build your own application.

Getting started

1. (optional) Create and activate a virtualenv (you may want to use virtualenvwrapper).

2. Fork this repo and clone your fork:

   git clone https://github.com/rhcarvalho/openshift-django-quickstart.git

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Create a development database:

   ./manage.py migrate

5. If everything is alright, you should be able to start the Django development server:

   ./manage.py runserver

6. Open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000, you will be greeted with a welcome page.

What has been done for you

This is a minimal Django 1.8 project. It was created with these steps:

1. Create a virtualenv
2. Manually install requirements
3. pip freeze > requirements.txt
4. django-admin startproject PROJECT_NAME .
5. Manually update project/settings.py to configure SECRET_KEY, DATABASE and STATIC_ROOT entries.
6. ./manage.py startapp openshift, to create the welcome page's app

Deploying to OpenShift

The file application-template.json contains an OpenShift application template that you can add you your OpenShift project with:

• osc create -f application-template.json

Now you can browse to your OpenShift web console and create a new app from the 'django-quickstart' template. After adjusting your preferences (or accepting the defaults), your application will be built and deployed.

You will probably want to set the GIT_REPOSITORY parameter to point to your fork.