A plugin for deploying Django projects to any VPS provider, using django-simple-deploy.

To deploy your project to a VPS, you'll need to ...

Deployment to a VPS requires the following:

• You must be using Git to track your project.
• You need to be tracking your dependencies with a requirements.txt file, or be using Poetry or Pipenv.
• You'll need...

First, install dsd-vps and add django_simple_deploy to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

$ pip install dsd-vps
# Add "django_simple_deploy" to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.
$ git commit -am "Added django_simple_deploy to INSTALLED_APPS."

When you install dsd-vps, it will install django-simple-deploy as a dependency.

Now run the deploy command:

$ python manage.py deploy

This is the deploy command from django-simple-deploy, which makes all the changes you need to run your project on a VPS.

This is experimental, and you should review the codebase before running this early version on your system. It will modify local files outside of your project, such as ~/.ssh/config and ~/.ssh/id_rsa_git.

• Create a new VPS instance.
  • I'm Using Ubuntu 24.04 on Digital Ocean for development work; any debian-based OS on any VPS provider should work.
  • Choose SSH username/password login approach, not SSH key (for now).
• Set two local env vars:
  • $ export DSD_HOST_IPADDR=<instance-ip-address>
  • $ export DSD_HOST_PW=<instance-pw>
• Install dsd-vps. (If you cloned this repo, you probably want to make a local editable install of dsd-vps.)
• Add django_simple_deploy to INSTALLED_APPS.
• Run python manage.py deploy --automate-all.
  • This command takes a while. If you think it might be hanging, look at your VPS instance dashboard. High CPU means it's probably still updating.
  • For development work, it might be reasonable to use a higher spec instance, that will be destroyed in under an hour.
  • The deployment will ask you to confirm a fingerprint before connecting. It will also require the root password for the instance.

The deploy command will add a new user named django_user to the instance, with the same password you originally chose. It will update and configure the server, configure Git on the server, configure the project to be served from the droplet, commit changes, push the project, and open the remote project in a new browser tab.

It will add a local ssh key pair for Git, modifying ~/.ssh/config. The key will be stored at ~/.ssh/id_rsa_git.

The project will be served over http, which means the browser will almost certainly flag it as insecure.

This is experimental, and you should review the codebase before running this early version on your system. It will modify local files outside of your project, such as ~/.ssh/config and ~/.ssh/id_rsa_git.

The current version of dsd-vps only supports ssh-key-based deployment to Digital Ocean, because it only knows how to create resources on that platform. Support for other platforms will be added as the behavior stabilizes.

• Install dsd-vps. (If you cloned this repo, you probably want to make a local editable install of dsd-vps.)
• Add django_simple_deploy to INSTALLED_APPS.
• Run python manage.py deploy --platform digital_ocean --automate-all --ssh-key <path_to_ssh_key>.
  • This command takes a while. If you think it might be hanging, look at your VPS instance dashboard. High CPU means it's probably still updating.
  • For development work, it might be reasonable to use a higher spec instance, that will be destroyed in under an hour.
  • The deployment will ask you to confirm a fingerprint before connecting.

The deploy command will add a new user named django_user to the instance. It will update and configure the server, configure Git on the server, configure the project to be served from the droplet, commit changes, push the project, and open the remote project in a new browser tab.

It will add a local ssh key pair for Git, modifying ~/.ssh/config. The key will be stored at ~/.ssh/id_rsa_git.

The project will be served over http, which means the browser will almost certainly flag it as insecure.