Deploy Django 5.2 to Railway. From Scratch. Complete Guide.

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In this course we take a Django project from development to production using modern deployment practices. To make this happen, we use Railway's platform services to host and deploy our Django applications with proper configuration. Railway will build, host, and run your container images directly from your code without ever leaving the platform or relying on third party services. What's better, you do not even need to know how to build containers (or even what they are) to deploy on railway thanks to the powerful Nixpacks. The point? Railway is an incredible platform for deploying software. We just happen to love it to deploy Django, FastAPI, Jupyter, Next.js, Postgres, and much more! Fun fact... the https://cfe.sh website runs on Railway! The process is simple: write code, push it to GitHub, then Railway will pull code, build images, and host your apps for you. Getting Django ready for production deployments is a key part of this course. 🕹️ References Code: https://github.com/codingforentrepreneurs/deploy-django-to-railway Django + Railway Guide: https://codingforentrepreneurs.com/blog/deploy-django-on-railway-with-this-dockerfile Sign up for Railway: https://kirr.co/wxfp4a (gives me credit) or https://www.railway.com (does not give me credit) Railway Django Deployment: https://docs.railway.com/guides/django My Django Template for Railway: https://djangocontainer.com Django + Gmail for sending email: https://www.codingforentrepreneurs.com/blog/sending-email-in-django-from-gmail 🚀 Topics include ✅ Setting up Python virtual environments for Django v5.2 (and beyond) ✅ Using Git and GitHub for version control ✅ Configuring Django for production environments ✅ Implementing Gunicorn as a WSGI server ✅ Deploy Django with Nixpacks (the default) to Railway ✅ Deploy Django with a custom Dockerfile to Railway ✅ Managing database migrations and PostgreSQL integration ✅ Handling secrets and environment variables securely ✅ Configuring static files with WhiteNoise ✅ Setting up custom domains with Cloudflare Proxies ✅ Deployed service-to-service communication over a private network (not the public internet) ✅ Creating custom Django management commands ✅ Send emails via Django and Gmail ✅ and much more Chapters: 00:00:00 Welcome 00:01:12 Python Virtual Environment & Django Hello World 00:06:32 Git + Code Editors 00:11:02 Using the Github CLI & Git to Push Code 00:17:22 Why use Git for Deployment 00:24:18 Django & Github Actions Basics 00:32:21 Handling Secrets and Env Vars 00:41:30 Domain Name Security and Django 00:46:29 Hello World & Health Check Views 00:51:44 Gunicorn Basics Web Server Gateway Interface 00:56:14 Your First Deployment on Railway 01:04:25 Production Env Variables with Railway 01:10:55 Pre-Deploy Migrate Django Database 01:13:39 Postgres in Production & Dev via Railway 01:22:39 Superuser with Custom Django Management Command 01:31:06 Configure Static Files in Django 01:40:40 WhiteNoise with Django & Railway 01:52:53 Sending Email with Django & Gmail 02:02:00 Deploy with a Custom Domain 02:11:29 Deploy with a Dockerfile 02:18:35 Custom Runtime Script for Django Container 02:29:23 Railway Config as Code 02:36:55 Other Django Packages for Production 02:42:16 Private Networking & Jupyter Notebooks 02:48:12 Thank you