Dockerfile for the Django application, MySQL as database

Below steps to prepare docker image with the Django with helloworld application installed/setup, MySQL as a database

1. Save the Below dockerfile contents to the directory.

2. Build the image as sudo docker build -t django_hw_img .
(there is a . at the end).

On successful image creation, docker image will created. it will be listed in the list from the command sudo docker images

3. Run the image as 

sudo docker run -i -t -p 80:80 django_hw_img:latest /bin/bash

4. On container shell start the apache2 service service apache2 start

5.Access the application from the http://<your_host_ip_address>/helloworld/

+===================Dockerfile======================+

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# Dockerfile to build Python-Django WSGI Application Containers

# Based on Ubuntu:latest

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# Set the base image to Ubuntu

FROM ubuntu

# File Author / Maintainer

MAINTAINER surya.janardhan@gmail.com

# Update the sources list

RUN apt-get update

# Install basic applications

RUN apt-get install -y git build-essential libapache2-mod-wsgi apache2

# Install Python and Basic Python Tools

RUN apt-get install -y python python-pip

# Get pip to download and install requirements:

RUN pip install django

#install MySQL in noninteractive way

RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

RUN apt-get -q -y install mysql-server python-mysqldb

#create the working dir and set the working directory

CMD mkdir /usr/local/share/apps

WORKDIR /usr/local/share/apps

#clone the tutorials from the github.com

RUN git clone https://github.com/Jadatravu/Tutorials /usr/local/share/apps/tutorials

# set the permissions to the app directory

CMD cd /usr/local/share/apps && chown -R www-data:www-data tutorials

WORKDIR  /usr/local/share/apps/tutorials/django_tutorials/helloworld/

# set the database for the helloworld database django_tut

RUN echo "CREATE DATABASE django_tut;" > /usr/local/share/apps/create_database.txt && service mysql start  && mysql -u root < /usr/local/share/apps/create_database.txt &&  python manage.py migrate

# Configure apache configuration for the helloworld application

RUN  echo "WSGIScriptAlias / /usr/local/share/apps/tutorials/django_tutorials/helloworld/helloworld/wsgi.py" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&  echo "WSGIPythonPath /usr/local/share/apps/tutorials/django_tutorials/helloworld/" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&  echo "<Directory /usr/local/share/apps/tutorials/django_tutorials/helloworld/>" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&  echo "<Files wsgi.py>" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&  echo "Order deny,allow" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&  echo "Require all granted" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&  echo "Satisfy Any" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&  echo "</Files>" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&  echo "</Directory>" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

#expose the port

EXPOSE 80

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