# Openshift quickstart: Django

This is a [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com) project that you can use as the starting point to develop your own and deploy it on an [OpenShift](https://github.com/openshift/origin) cluster.

It assumes you have access to an existing OpenShift installation.

## What has been done for you

This is a minimal Django 1.8 project. It was created with these steps:

1. Create a virtualenv
2. Manually install Django and other dependencies
3. `pip freeze > requirements.txt`
4. `django-admin startproject project .`
3. Manually update `project/settings.py` to configure `SECRET_KEY`, `DATABASE` and `STATIC_ROOT` entries.
4. `./manage.py startapp welcome`, to create the welcome page's app


## Local development

To run this project in your development machine, follow these steps:

1. (optional) Create and activate a [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/) (you may want to use [virtualenvwrapper](http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/)).

2. Fork this repo and clone your fork:

    `git clone https://github.com/openshift/django-ex.git`

3. Install dependencies:

    `pip install -r requirements.txt`

4. Create a development database:

    `./manage.py migrate`

4. If everything is alright, you should be able to start the Django development server:

    `./manage.py runserver`

5. Open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000, you will be greeted with a welcome page.


## Special files in this repository

Apart from the regular files created by Django (`project/*`, `welcome/*`, `manage.py`), this repository contains:

```
.sti/
└── bin/           - scripts used by source-to-image
    ├── assemble   - executed to produce a Docker image with your code and dependencies during build
    └── run        - executed to start your app during deployment

openshift/         - application templates for OpenShift

scripts/           - helper scripts to automate some tasks

gunicorn_conf.py   - configuration for the gunicorn HTTP server

requirements.txt   - list of dependencies
```

## Deploying to OpenShift

The file `application-template.json` contains an OpenShift application template that you can add you your OpenShift project with:

* `osc create -f application-template.json`

Now you can browse to your OpenShift web console and create a new app from the 'django-quickstart' template.
After adjusting your preferences (or accepting the defaults), your application will be built and deployed.

You will probably want to set the `GIT_REPOSITORY` parameter to point to your fork.


## Data persistence

[TODO]