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How To Scale and Secure a Django Application with Docker, Nginx, and Let’s Encrypt

Introduction

In cloud-based environments, there are multiple ways to scale and secure a Django application. By scaling horizontally, and running several copies of your app, you can build a more fault-tolerant and highly-available system, while also increasing its throughput so that requests can be processed simultaneously. One way to horizontally scale a Django app is to provision additional app servers that run your Django application and its WSGI HTTP server (like Gunicorn or uWSGI). To route and distribute incoming requests across this set of app servers, you can use a load balancer and reverse proxy like Nginx. Nginx can also cache static content and terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections, used to provide HTTPS and secure connections to your app. Continue reading “How To Scale and Secure a Django Application with Docker, Nginx, and Let’s Encrypt”