使用 Docker 容器 - Django 构建后维护媒体文件

Question

I am using Django as a Web Framework. Azure NGINEX as WebServer. My Project is deployed with Docker Containers.

In my Django project root structure will be as follows:

root:
  - app1
  - app2
  - media

whenever saving images, it will correctly save under media folder. But whenever doing "docker-compose up" it will replaces the source code, so that my media folder will be cleaned up everytime.

In my settings.py file, I have added as follows:

 MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'media')
 MEDIA_URL = 'media/'

Kindly help me to maintain the media files with Docker based Environment

Answer 1

You have to basically do 2 things:

• Changing the directory to keep the media files to somewhere out of your source code directory - it's not any good practice to keep them in the source directory because of several reasons,
• Using docker volumes in your docker-compose configuration file to persist your media directory. You can find the detailed documentation on the way to configure volumes in docker-compose here .