Deploy Django to Railway
In-depth deployment guide for Django
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3/26/2025
Deploy Django to Railway is now here.
In this course we take a Django project from development to production using modern deployment practices.
To make this happen, we use Railway's platform services to host and deploy our Django applications with proper configuration. Railway will build, host, and run your container images directly from your code without ever leaving the platform or relying on third party services. What's better, you do not even need to know how to build containers (or even what they are) to deploy on railway thanks to the powerful Nixpacks.
The point? Railway is an incredible platform for deploying software. We just happen to love it to deploy Django, FastAPI, Jupyter, Next.js, Postgres, and much more! Fun fact... CFE runs on Railway!
The process is simple: write code, push it to GitHub, then Railway will pull code, build images, and host your apps for you. Getting Django ready for production deployments is a key part of this course.
Topics include:
- Setting up Python virtual environments for Django v5.2 (and beyond)
- Using Git and GitHub for version control
- Configuring Django for production environments
- Implementing Gunicorn as a WSGI server
- Deploy Django with Nixpacks (the default) to Railway
- Deploy Django with a custom Dockerfile to Railway
- Managing database migrations and PostgreSQL integration
- Handling secrets and environment variables securely
- Configuring static files with WhiteNoise
- Setting up custom domains
- Deployed service-to-service communication over a private network (not the public internet)
- Creating custom Django management commands
- Send emails via Django and Gmail
- and much more
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