How to setup Django and Celery with Docker and docker-compose

This story sets up Django and adds Celery support to a docker-compose setup. I have updated this on 22 May, 2022 to use the newest version of Celery, which does foster a few changes.

Setup basic Django project

First create …

How to setup Django with Docker and docker-compose

In this story I'll show how to setup a simple django application to use docker and docker-compose.

Install a base django project

First we need to install a basic Django app, we do this in a Python 3 virtual environment.

$ virtualenv venv …

How to setup Vagrant, Ansible and Postgresql

In this story I’ll be setting up Vagrant with a Postgresql server provisioned by Ansible. The setup will be pretty bare bone, so don’t use it as a blueprint for a production setup.

Setup Vagrant

Create a file named ‘Vagrantfile’ in …

How does Django's select_related works and when should you use it?

What problem does it solve?

Django's select_related() solves the problem when you want to access related fields on a queryset. Assume the models:

from django.db import models


class Author(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=250)


class Book …