Hosting the Django Web Application in Google Cloud Platform

Pre-Requisites

Before you begin this tutorial, you'll need the following:

• Google Cloud Platform account
• Django Project that you have uploaded to your GitHub

Step 1: Create a VM instance

The VM instance can be created by following the below steps:

1. Open the Google Cloud Platform Console

2. Click on the Navigation Menu

   

3. Click on Compute Engine and Enable it if you are using it for the first time

   

4. Click on Create Instance

   

5. Enter the Name of the Instance

   

6. Choose the Region and Zone

   

7. Choose the Machine Type

   

8. Choose the Boot Disk

   

9. Choose the Firewall

   

10. Click on Create

    

Step 2: Setting up Essentials for Django Project

• Click on SSH on the VM instance to connect to the machine that you created just now.

  

• Update the System and install pip3

  sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip

• Install Django with the help of pip3

  sudo pip3 install django

• Also, Install the necessary Python libraries that may be required for your Django Project. To install those packages use the syntax below

  sudo pip3 install [your package name]

Step 3: Clone your Project from GitHub

• Use the git clone method to clone your project.

  git clone "your repository https link"

Step 4: Deploy the Django Project

• Go to the directory of the Django project where you can find the manage.py and make it executable

  chmod +x manage.py

• Now go to the directory of the project where you have settings.py file and edit the settings.py file as shown below:

  nano settings.py

• Now again go to the manage.py file directory and run the following command:

  sudo python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80

• Now you can open the following URL:

  http://YOUR_EXTERNAL_IP

Conclusion

This is how you can Host your Django Application on Google Cloud Platform.