Dokku Setup

This a basic step by step how to deploy this app on a Dokku instance

Install the required plugins:

Postgres sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-postgres.git
RabbitMQ sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-rabbitmq.git
Let's Encrypt sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt.git

Create a new app dokku apps:create backend-staging
Create a new Postgres database dokku postgres:create staging-db
Link the new db with the app dokku postgres:link staging-db backend-staging
Create a new RabbitMQ service dokku rabbitmq:create staging-store
Link the new store with the app dokku rabbitmq:link staging-store backend-staging
Configure environment variables dokku --app backend-staging config:set [KEY]=[VALUE]

DJANGO_SECRET_KEY (A new one can be generated with tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 48)
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE (app.settings.prod or app.settings.staging)
SMS_GATEWAY_TOKEN
EMAIL_HOST
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
EMAIL_HOST_USER
WORKER_QUEUE

Deploy the app once.
Setup Let's Encrypt (Optional, but VERY recommended)

Add email as a global variable dokku config:set --global DOKKU_LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=domain@tld.com
Run configuration command dokku letsencrypt backend-staging

Setup logging service to Papertrail (Optional, but recommended)

Install Logspout plugin dokku plugin:install https://github.com/michaelshobbs/dokku-logspout.git
Go to Papertrail and add a new system
Configure the logspout logspout at /home/dokku/.logspout/OPTS With a new line: export DOKKU_LOGSPOUT_SYSLOG_SERVER=syslog+tls://YOU-PAPERTRAIL-URL

Setup database backup service to Amazon Bucket (Optional, but VERY recommended)

dokku postgres:backup-auth staging-db aws-access-key-id aws-secret-access-key
dokku postgres:backup-schedule db "0 3 * * *" bucket-name