This blog post will try to outline the process of deploying ILMO (a Django app) by building a docker image, using ansible to install&configure it on our server and use Traefik as webserver that is readily configured and obtains certificates for us.

I will go through the steps one by one and link more extensive documentation.

Building the docker image

Building the docker image is pretty straightforward as it closely resembles the steps of manual deployment. The docker file is probably terribly inefficient as it is to large and should be build in stages. Consider this a working example, not a best practice. Also feel free to give me pointers on how to improve it. Specifics I want to point out are: