No Shortcuts Guide to Django RESTful APIs with Docker

Build a functional API with Docker, Celery, Redis, Flower, Nginx, Nginx Proxy manager, Portainer and more...

Created by: Alpha Omondi Ogilo
Self taught Full-Stack Software developer

What Will I Learn?

• You will learn how to use Docker with Celery, Redis, Flower with Django REST Framework
• You will learn how to use Reverse Proxies with NGINX and NGINX Proxy Manager
• You will learn how Secure an API with HTTPS with SSL Certificates from Letsencrypt
• You will be Introduced to API testing with Pytest using factories and fixtures
• You will learn how manage multiple Docker containers with Portainer
• You will learn how to use shell scripts to automate and monitor processes
• You will learn about UUID's (advantages and disadvantages) and how pseudo primary keys solve this.
• You will learn how to implement Asynchronous tasks with Celery and Redis
• You will learn how to Serve static and media files with Nginx and Whitenoise.
• You will learn how implement Asynchronous tasks monitoring with Flower
• You will learn how to work with Postgres within a Docker container, including how to perform backups using shell scripts.
• You will learn how to setup an Ubuntu server, running Django over a Domain name.
• You will learn how to use makefiles to make working with Docker easier.
• Python Test coverage using coverage
• Logging in Django
• Token Based Authentication
• Working with emails using Mailhog in development and Mailgun in production.

Requirements

• This course is NOT for absolute beginners.
• This course is targeted at Python Developers with at least 1 year of web development experience or more
• It's preferable that you use a computer with any LINUX based operating system or MacOS. If not possible, a windows machine will also work, but I have not tested the course material with a windows machine
• You should be familiar with the basic concepts surrounding shell scripts, Docker,API's and Django.

Target audience

• Intermediate Python Developers curious about how to use Django REST Framework with shell scripts, Docker, Docker, Celery, Redis, Rabbitmq, Flower and Nginx. You will learn everything you need to know to combine these technologies in a production build by leveraging other tools such as Portainer, NGINX Proxy manager among others
• Intermediate Python Developers with at least 1 year of experience, more is better