Deploying Django with the Digital Ocean Apps Platform was fairly straightforward. Overall, I followed this video with some minor changes to suit my needs:

Changes I made:

1. If I let Django generate the secret key using get_random_secret_key() function, users have to login every time I made some code changes leading to a bad experience. Thus, I hardcode it in an environment variable.
2. I also have another environment variable IS_POST (default to False) which is used to control the static file hosting.
3. Since in MediDoc users can upload media, I also had to create DigitalOcean spaces and add the following configuration variables to my settings.py file.

if IS_PROD:
    DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage'
    AWS_S3_REGION_NAME = 'nyc3'
    AWS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL = f'https://{AWS_S3_REGION_NAME}.digitaloceanspaces.com'
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = os.getenv('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID')
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = os.getenv('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
    AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = 'medidoc'
    AWS_S3_OBJECT_PARAMETERS = {
        'CacheControl': 'max-age=86400',
    }
    AWS_LOCATION = 'media'

In the end, I have the following environment variables:

Check out the deployment here: https://medi-doc-njgqo.ondigitalocean.app/

Try It Out

To try it out, please create a patient account here and a medical account here (note that admin has to approve the medical accounts, so please wait a bit!).

Alternatively, you can use the following demo medical accounts:

• devto-hospital
• devto-diag
• devto-pharmacy

And the patient account:

• devto-patient

Password for all of them is: medidocpass@abc

Let me know what you think!