Django REST API CI CD Template

A Django REST API template for scalable applications, featuring modern CI/CD, Docker Swarm deployments with zero-downtime SSL, automated changelogs, dynamic OpenAPI/Swagger UI documentation, and integrated tests with coverage reports, artifacts, and badges.

📚 Documentation

For detailed information about the project, please check:

• 💻 Project Design Specifications Architecture, data models, and API endpoints documentation

• 🛠️ Continuous Integration Setup Pre-commit hooks configuration and automated testing pipeline

• 🚀 Continuous Delivery Setup Docker image build, DockerHub publishing, and DigitalOcean Docker Swarm deployment

• 🎨 Style Guide Project code style guide: commit messages, release versioning

🛠️ Tech Stack

Backend Framework & API

• Django: Python web framework for rapid development
• Django REST Framework: Powerful toolkit for building Web APIs
• DRF-Spectacular: OpenAPI/Swagger documentation generator

Testing & Quality Assurance

• pytest: Feature-rich testing framework
• pytest-django: Django-specific testing utilities
• Coverage.py: Code coverage measurement
• pre-commit: Git hooks framework for code quality checks

Security & SSL

• Traefik: Modern reverse proxy and load balancer
• Let's Encrypt: Automatic SSL certificate provisioning
  • ACME protocol for automated certificate issuance and renewal
  • Zero-downtime certificate rotation

Code Quality & Formatting

• Black: Uncompromising Python code formatter
• Ruff: Extremely fast Python linter
• mypy: Static type checker

Development & Deployment

• Docker: Container platform
• Docker Compose: Multi-container development environments
• Docker Swarm: Container orchestration for production
  • Zero-downtime deployments with rolling updates
  • Automatic service rollbacks on failure
  • Health checks and self-healing capabilities
• GitHub Actions: CI/CD automation
• Neovim: Blazingly fast, extensible code editor

Database

• PostgreSQL: Robust relational database

🏃 Running Locally

Without Docker

Prerequisites

# Start PostgreSQL database
docker run -d \
    --name some-postgres \
    -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres \
    --rm \
    -p 5432:5432 \
    docker.io/postgres:16

Setup and Run

# Install dependencies
python -m pip install -r requirements/local.txt

# Setup database
python manage.py migrate

# Collect static files
python manage.py collectstatic

# Run server, and open http://localhost:8000/api/docs
python manage.py runserver

Development Commands

# Run tests
pytest

# Type checking
mypy fuel_tracker

# Test coverage
coverage run -m pytest
coverage html

🐋 With Docker

Setup and Run

# Build the stack
docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml build

# Start services
docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml up

# Setup database
docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml run --rm django python manage.py migrate

Development Commands

# Run tests
docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml run --rm django pytest

# Type checking
docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml run --rm django mypy

# Test coverage
docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml run --rm django coverage run -m pytest
docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml run --rm django coverage html
open htmlcov/index.html

☕ Author

• Aidos Kanapyanov (aidos.kanapyanov2@gmail.com)
• 💼 LinkedIn Profile

⚖️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.