How to spin up a django CMS project in less than 5 minutes with Docker Compose

Our community member Daniele Procida spent some time recently on building this quick start: https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms-quickstart

The idea is that it’s the quickest and easiest possible way to get started with a django CMS project running in Docker. How quick and easy?

$ git clone django-cms:django-cms/django-cms-quickstart.git
$ cd django-cms-quickstart
$ docker-compose up --build -d
$ docker-compose run web ./manage.py migrate
$ docker-compose run web ./manage.py createsuperuser
$ open http://127.0.0.1:8000

It gives you a django CMS project with (or without) some common plugins and components, a Bootstrap 4 frontend and so on. It can run with uWSGI, Gunicorn or even Guvicorn for ASGI. It defaults to using Postgres, included in the Docker project, but can also run with MySQL. And if you want, it’s ready to use AWS S3 storage, but you don’t have to.

It gives you a django CMS project that’s very similar to what you’d get if you used the django CMS Installer - it should look pretty familiar to everyone who has used that.It will run happily locally on your own machine, and it’s also ready to be deployed on a Docker host. There’s a how to guide for getting it deployed on Divio, but that’s just one option.

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