Deploy a Django web app with Nginx and Amazon ECS – 2024

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Course overview

Lecture 2: Course prerequisites – [Important]

Lecture 3: Course support

Lecture 4: Thought process

Chapter 2: Project resources

Lecture 1: Final project code – Download

Lecture 2: Final project code – Important information

Chapter 3: Create a basic application – [Optional]

Lecture 1: Python and Visual Studio Code – Installation – Windows

Lecture 2: Django project setup – Windows

Lecture 3: Configure the Python interpreter – Windows

Lecture 4: Virtual environment – Deep dive

Lecture 5: Django app setup

Lecture 6: Setup a basic template, url and view

Lecture 7: Configure static files

Lecture 8: Add styling to our webpage

Lecture 9: Main application structure setup

Lecture 10: User registration

Lecture 11: User authentication – Login

Lecture 12: User authentication – Logout

Lecture 13: Navigation setup and dashboard creation

Lecture 14: Test our basic application

Chapter 4: AWS setup and IAM configuration

Lecture 1: Create an AWS account

Lecture 2: Create and set a designated budget on AWS

Lecture 3: Cost reminder – Deployment Phase I

Lecture 4: Amazon IAM – [Theory]

Lecture 5: IAM – Create a user and a group

Lecture 6: IAM – Utilise our unique URL

Lecture 7: IAM – Secure your AWS accounts with MFA

Lecture 8: IAM – Generate access keys

Lecture 9: IAM – Add ECR and ECS permissions

Lecture 10: AWS CLI installation and setup – Windows

Chapter 5: Cloud storage and Database Integration

Lecture 1: Amazon S3 – [Theory]

Lecture 2: Create and setup an S3 bucket

Lecture 3: Integrating S3 with our application

Lecture 4: Amazon RDS – [Theory]

Lecture 5: Configuring our PostgreSQL database settings

Lecture 6: Create an RDS instance with PostgreSQL

Chapter 6: DNS Management

Lecture 1: AWS Route 53 – [Theory]

Lecture 2: Register a domain name with Route 53

Lecture 3: Amazon Route 53 – Domain name issues

Lecture 4: Amazon Certificate Manager – [Theory]

Lecture 5: Provision and assign an SSL certificate

Chapter 7: Styling our basic application – [Optional]

Lecture 1: Adding styling to our forms

Chapter 8: Dockerization with Django

Lecture 1: What is Docker? – [Theory]

Lecture 2: Installing and setting up Docker

Lecture 3: Examine Docker desktop

Lecture 4: Docker desktop – Troubleshooting guide – [Optional]

Lecture 5: Docker preparation

Lecture 6: Creating our docker files – [Theory]

Lecture 7: Create a docker file for a Django image

Lecture 8: Create a dockerignore file – [Optional]

Chapter 9: Dockerization with Nginx

Lecture 1: Nginx: A short introduction – [Theory]

Lecture 2: What is a reverse proxy? – [Theory]

Lecture 3: Create a docker file for an Nginx image

Lecture 4: Link our Django application with an Nginx Reverse Proxy

Lecture 5: Improving the performance of our containers – [Optional]

Lecture 6: Build our docker images

Lecture 7: Running our docker containers

Lecture 8: Docker resource cleanup

Chapter 10: Deployment – ECS – EC2 launch type

Lecture 1: Managing docker containers on AWS – [Theory]

Lecture 2: Running docker containers on Amazon ECS – [Theory]

Lecture 3: Deployment preparation

Lecture 4: Configure our environment variables – Part 1

Lecture 5: Configure our environment variables – Part 2

Lecture 6: Docker resource clean-up check

Lecture 7: Create a docker image for production

Lecture 8: Amazon ECR push issues – [Important]

Lecture 9: Cost reminder – Deployment Phase II

Lecture 10: Push our docker image to Amazon ECR – NB!!

Lecture 11: Push our docker images to Amazon ECR

Lecture 12: Configure our load balancer and DNS records

Lecture 13: Create a security group for our ECS container

Lecture 14: Define a task definition

Lecture 15: Setup our ECS cluster and service – Part 1

Lecture 16: Setup our ECS cluster and service – Part 2

Chapter 11: Managing user sessions

Lecture 1: Amazon ElastiCache – [Theory]

Lecture 2: How to manage user sessions? – [Theory]

Lecture 3: What is a sticky session? – [Theory]

Lecture 4: How to enable sticky sessions

Lecture 5: AWS resource cleanup

Chapter 12: Bonus content

Lecture 1: Allowing CIDR ranges – [Bonus]

Chapter 13: Thank you!

Lecture 1: Thank you! – A final message

Lecture 2: Bonus lecture!