Project 5 - Deploy Your Application

This is a small deployment-ready Django application.

The repository is provider-neutral. Use the hosting provider selected for your class and map its settings to the values in .env.example.

Local setup

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
python manage.py runserver

Production start command

gunicorn deploy_project.wsgi

Deployment checklist

Configure these environment variables on the hosting provider:

SECRET_KEY
DEBUG=False
ALLOWED_HOSTS
CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS
DATABASE_URL (if using a hosted database)

After deployment, verify the public URL and inspect application logs if something fails.

This project intentionally does not hard-code a provider-specific deployment recipe. The teaching objective is understanding what deployment requires.