Introduction

In the previous post I outlined how to set up a Nominatim server that allows us to find a geolocation for any address on the planet. Now let’s use our newfound power in Django. Again, all code snippets are CC0 so make free use of them. But I’d be very happy if you tell me if you use them for something cool!

Prerquisites

• You have a working geocoding server or use a public one
• You have a working django app

If you want to do geocoding in a different environment you will still be able to use a lot of the the following examples, just skip the Django-specifics and configure the GEOCODING_API_URL according to your needs.

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: