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Django on Kubernetes

Django on Kubernetes

This is part 2 of our Kubernetes hackday series. Part 1 goes over how we spent the day and what the goals and motivations are.


For part 2, we're going to delve into the architecture required for running a Django application on Kubernetes, as well as some of the tooling we used to assist us.
This post will assume some knowledge with deploying and operating a production web application. I'm not going to spend much time going over the terminology that Kubernetes uses either. What I hope to do in this post is present enough information to kickstart your own migration. Kubernetes is big - and knowing what to research now and what to put off until later is really tricky.
I'm also going to describe this deployment in terms of Amazon EKS simply because I was on the EKS team, and most of our applications are already on AWS.