Modal django example

Installation and local server

Run using django tooling

# activate your python virtual environment
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Run using modal tooling

modal serve config/modal_wsgi.py

Deployment

# activate your python virtual environment

# create environment variables
# you only have to create secrets once per project
# get a db url before this step. i like elephantsql.com for free hobby dbs
modal secret create demo-secrets DATABASE_URL=<database url> SECRET_KEY=<a long random string>
# collect static files locally to be pushed
python manage.py collectstatic --no-input
# deploy web endpoint
modal deploy config/modal_wsgi.py
# deploy scheduled jobs
modal deploy config/modal_jobs.py

Modal specific files

• config/__init__.py initializes secrets, image, and mounts used for modal
• config/modal_settings.py sets remote SECRET_KEY variable and connects to remote postgres database
• config/modal_wsgi.py wsgi entry point for web endpoint
• config/modal_jobs.py calls django command to run scheduled jobs