Deploying a Django Application on AWS EC2

Set up an AWS EC2 instance

1. Create an IAM user & login to your AWS Console

• Access Type - Password
• Permissions - Admin

2. Create an EC2 instance

• Select an OS image - Ubuntu
• Create a new key pair & download .pem file

3. Connecting to the instance using ssh

ssh -i instance.pem ubunutu@<IP_ADDRESS>

Configuring Ubuntu on remote VM

1. Updating the outdated packages

sudo apt update

Deploying the project on AWS

1. Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/Yash-KK/Django-EC2.git
  cd Django-EC2

2. Create a virtual enviornment

  virtualenv venv
  source venv/bin/activate

3. Setup the following enviornment variables

  SECRET_KEY=""

4. Start the project

  python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

NOTE - We will have to edit the inbound rules in the security group of our EC2, in order to allow traffic from our particular port