Deploy django app to Azure App Service on Linux using Visual Studio Code

This django app is created following the official django tutorial. Added a welcome app to serve the website homepage.

Prerequisites

1. You would need an Azure subscription to complete the tutorial. You can create a free account to start with: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.
2. This web app requires a MySQL Server (django.db.backends.mysql) as the backend, you can also use PostgreSQL server as the backend. You can easily create a Azure Database for MySQL using Azure portal https://ms.portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.MySQLServer.
3. This tutorial uses Visual Studio Code as code editor and deployment too. You can download VSCode for free from https://code.visualstudio.com/download.
4. Follow the getting-started instructions to install VSCode App Service Extension.

Prep the code

Get the source code onto your dev machine: $ git clone https://github.com/yiliaomsft/pycon19-django.git

Load the local source code repo into VSCode: $ cd pycon19-django $ code .

Update database connect string

Please update the settings.py file to include your own database connection string.

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': '<database name>',
        'USER': '<database user name>',
        'PASSWORD': 'database password',
        'HOST': 'database host',
     }
}

Deploy the django app to Linux App Service

Follow the instructions to create a new web app and deploy the django app to Linux App Service.