Settings, files, and a checklist to deploy a Django app to Render with gunicorn + redis and using `poetry` for dependencies.

!render-checklist.md

• GitHub for code
• Render blueprint specified by render.yaml
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Linked to GitHub repo
  • Add environment variables for PYTHON_VERISON=3.9.7, ENVIRONMENT=live, and SECRET_KEY
• Cloudflare for SSL and CNAME pointing to Render app domain
  • Force SSL with a Cloudflare rule
• Namecheap for the domain
  • Point nameservers to Cloudflare
• Sentry for error logging
• Panelbear and Plausible for privacy-focused analytics
• UptimeRobot to get alerts for when the site goes down

gunicorn.conf.py

workers = 3

render-build.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -o errexit

poetry install --no-dev
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
python manage.py compress --force
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
python manage.py migrate

render.yaml

services:
  - type: web
    name: something-web
    env: python
    repo: https://github.com/adamghill/something.com
    region: ohio
    scaling:
      minInstances: 1
      maxInstances: 2
      targetMemoryPercent: 60 # optional if targetCPUPercent is set
      targetCPUPercent: 60 # optional if targetMemory is set
    buildCommand: ./render-build.sh
    startCommand: gunicorn -c gunicorn.conf.py project.wsgi
    plan: free
    domains:
      - something.com
      - www.something.com
    envVars:
      - key: DATABASE_URL
        fromDatabase:
          name: something-postgres
          property: connectionString
      - key: REDIS_URL
        fromService:
          type: redis
          name: something-redis
          property: connectionString
      - fromGroup: something
  - type: redis
    name: something-redis
    ipAllowList: []
    plan: free
    region: ohio
databases:
  - name: something-postgres
    region: ohio
    plan: standard

requirements.txt

poetry==1.2.2

I am hopeful that render adds a release phase soon. Looks like it is "planned" according to https://render.canny.io/features/p/release-phase-script.