Creating a Django CI/CD Pipeline with Travis CI and AWS Elasticbeanstalk

This article goes through the full process of setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a Django application with Github, Travis CI and AWS ElasticBeanstalk

Components used:

• Github: For version control and code hosting
• Travis CI: For application build and deployment to AWS ElasticBeanstalk
• AWS Elasticbeanstalk: For hosting the Django application.

This article is going to focus on setting up the CI/CD pipeline and not the Django application as the steps used in this pipeline are common across all Django applications. However, I am including a small note on the application to add some context.

Application details:

The application is the simple ‘polls’ app discussed in Django documentation.

Let’s get started.

Step 1: Creating a python package

• Let’s start by creating a virtual env

Navigate to the root of your Django-project and create a virtual environment.

python -m venv <name_of_virtualenv>

• Activate the virtual env. The command differs from Windows to Linux
• Install the required dependencies present in the requirements.txt file.

pip install -r requirements.txt