Hi Guillaumae, Did you go ahead with this approach? If yes, then would you be kind enough to share your experience and maybe brief us about your process/journey?
On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 7:25:24 PM UTC+5:30, Guillaume Dupin wrote: > > Hello, > > On a Django project (which will consist of several REST web services), I > would like to isolate my services (each service would be a Django > application) into different Docker containers to aim to a micro-services > architecture. It will allow to benefit of Docker isolation to update > independantly the different apps of the project and also to scale each > service idependantly according to the load increase by using load-balancers > in font of each group of services-containers (plus the numerous advantages > brought by Docker). > I understand that, by doing so, each container will run a Django server > and that this different servers will surely have to share some data. > > First, do you think it is possible to do so ? > I have searched examples of such architectural choice but I always found > the use of Docker to encapsulate a Django project (one container for the > server, one container for the DB for example) and never this idea of "one > app per container" architecture. > Do you think it is a valid approach ? > Has someone already tested such a solution ? > One problem I identify is : will each Django server have to be aware of > all the services or not ? > > To go further, if the previous idea is valid, do you think it can be > coupled with a separation of databases ? As Django can already manage > different databases, I imagined that each application could use several > databases : a common Django database (accesible from all the apps) for the > generic data and a specific database for all the app-specific data. It > would push further the isolation of the services and improve the modularity > of the whole project (by allowing to easily delete or add a service without > impacting the others) > > Do you think it is coherent with Django concepts ? > > Thank you for your help > > Regards, > Guillaume > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/c88fc0a0-a84a-4ea9-94e6-665725626f37%40googlegroups.com.
