CI/CD for Django
📚 Learn more about Django action features, integrations and alternatives.
With Buddy, you can create a pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys Django applications on a push to Git. The configuration is super simple and takes 10 to 15 minutes.
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1. Select your Git repository
Buddy supports all popular Git hosting providers, including GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. You can also use your own private Git server, or host code directly on Buddy.
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2. Add a new delivery pipeline
Enter the pipeline's name, select the trigger mode, and define the branch from which Buddy will fetch your code:
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Trigger modes
- Manually (on click) — recommended for Production
- On events (automatic) — recommended for Development
- On schedule (on time interval) — recommended for Staging/Testing
3. Add actions
Buddy lets you choose from dozens of predefined actions. In this example, we'll add 4 actions that will perform the following tasks:
- Download dependencies and run unit tests
- Compile assets with Gulp
- Upload code to server together with compiled assets
- Send notification to Slack
3.1 Build your Django application
Look up and click Django on the action list to add it to the pipeline:
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The Run tab lets you determine the commands to execute. The default commands are:
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py test
$$
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3.1.2 Python version
You can change the version of Python and install missing packages & tools in the runtime environment tab:
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3.2 Run Gulp tasks
The next step is adding the Gulp action that will compile your assets and minify the code. To add a Gulp action, switch the tab to the Stacks section. You can find Gulp under Build Tools & Task Runners.
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3.3 Deploy application to the server
The compiled application needs to be uploaded to the server. Head to the Transfer section and select your upload action (SFTP in our case):
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When adding the action you can choose what and where should be uploaded:
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3.4 Send notification to Slack
You can configure Buddy to send your team a message after the deployment. In this example we'll use Slack:
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4. Summary
Congratulations! You have just automated your entire delivery process. Make a push to the selected branch and watch Buddy fetch, build, and deploy your project. With Continuous Delivery applied, you can now focus on what's really important: developing awesome apps!
Sep 23, 2024