How use Dokku with django?

Question

I try use dokku for my web projects - deployment become cool. But I can't find information about two things.

1. Can I autocreate database from dokku-util ? How?
2. How and where store media files without using AWS ? I want use only my vps'.

PS Or may be you see good materials about full workflow for dokku ?

Answer 1

1. You can add plugins to dokku. Connect to your VPS, go to the /var/lib/dokku/plugins folder and then you can 'git clone' various plugins from github. There are a list of plugins on the dokku site that will create mysql, postgresql, redis, and other databases.

While the plugins work great, I prefer to run a second VPS that just hosts databases.

1. There isn't really a good way of serving static files directly from django--even when it's under docker. There is an app called dj-static that will help, but the author appears to be slow to update it for newer django releases. ( https://github.com/kennethreitz/dj-static )