Railway•8mo ago

Dockerized application on Railway (docker compose)

Below is example of django application using celery, redis and postgres db Railway has databases redis and postgres which are straight forward way to set it up But what about celery worker or any other extra workers, how to set them up? There is also some volumes

volumes:
  postgres_data:
  django_storage:

volumes:
  postgres_data:
  django_storage:

I read there will downtime during deployment as well because of volumes? Would be nice to clarify how it works and how to generally set more complex applications that require multiple docker services to run? Would I have each separate github repo just for each individual service such as celery? And how to make service talk to each other do we use internal railway network? Thanks

version: '3'

services:
  db:
    image: postgres:13
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    env_file:
      - ./server/.env

  redis:
    image: redis:6

  web:
    build: .
    command: ["./entrypoint.sh"]
    volumes:
      - .:/app
      - django_storage:/app/django_storage
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
    environment:
      DEBUG: ${DEBUG:-'True'}

  celery:
    build: .
    command: celery -A server worker -l info -n p80 --pool=threads --concurrency=100
    volumes:
      - .:/app
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis

  nginx:
    image: nginx:latest
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
      - ./certs:/etc/letsencrypt
      - ./webroot:/var/www/certbot
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      - web
      - celery

  certbot:
    image: certbot/certbot
    command: certbot --help
    volumes:
      - ./certs:/etc/letsencrypt
      - ./webroot:/var/www/certbot
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      - web
      - celery
      - nginx

volumes:
  postgres_data:
  django_storage:

version: '3'

services:
  db:
    image: postgres:13
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    env_file:
      - ./server/.env

  redis:
    image: redis:6

  web:
    build: .
    command: ["./entrypoint.sh"]
    volumes:
      - .:/app
      - django_storage:/app/django_storage
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
    environment:
      DEBUG: ${DEBUG:-'True'}

  celery:
    build: .
    command: celery -A server worker -l info -n p80 --pool=threads --concurrency=100
    volumes:
      - .:/app
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis

  nginx:
    image: nginx:latest
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
      - ./certs:/etc/letsencrypt
      - ./webroot:/var/www/certbot
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      - web
      - celery

  certbot:
    image: certbot/certbot
    command: certbot --help
    volumes:
      - ./certs:/etc/letsencrypt
      - ./webroot:/var/www/certbot
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      - web
      - celery
      - nginx

volumes:
  postgres_data:
  django_storage:

Solution:

so as you may know Railway does not yet support docker compose, you would have to manually deconstruct the compose file into individual railway services manually

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Percy•8mo ago

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pandas•8mo ago

N/A Dockerfile

# Use an official Python runtime as the base image
FROM python:3.8-slim

# Set environment variables for Django
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
ENV DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE server.settings

# Set the working directory in the container to /app
WORKDIR /app

# Add the current directory . into the container at /app
ADD . /app/

# Install system dependencies
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y --fix-missing --no-install-recommends \
    libpq-dev \
    libc6-dev \
    build-essential \
    gcc \
    g++ && \
    apt-get clean && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Install Python dependencies
RUN pip install --upgrade pip && \
    pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run the application
CMD ["gunicorn", "server.wsgi:application", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8000"]

# Use an official Python runtime as the base image
FROM python:3.8-slim

# Set environment variables for Django
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
ENV DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE server.settings

# Set the working directory in the container to /app
WORKDIR /app

# Add the current directory . into the container at /app
ADD . /app/

# Install system dependencies
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y --fix-missing --no-install-recommends \
    libpq-dev \
    libc6-dev \
    build-essential \
    gcc \
    g++ && \
    apt-get clean && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Install Python dependencies
RUN pip install --upgrade pip && \
    pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run the application
CMD ["gunicorn", "server.wsgi:application", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8000"]

zeroloc•8mo ago

Following. I have the same use case. Django, Celery, Redis, and Caddy deployed on a single AWS EC2. We do not have volumes though and DB is on RDS.

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Brody•8mo ago

so as you may know Railway does not yet support docker compose, you would have to manually deconstruct the compose file into individual railway services manually

Brody•8mo ago

except you wouldn't need nginx or certbot since Railway handles SSL certs for you

pandas•8mo ago

Thanks, Brody What about communication between apps can IP be pointed to service name or is IP internal railway app?

Brody•8mo ago

communication between apps can use the private network domains

pandas•8mo ago

Ty and how does volume downtime work? Are deployments zero downtime if theres no volume attached?

Brody•8mo ago

a service with a volume will incur some downtime, even if you use a healthcheck, this is done to prevent data corruption

pandas•8mo ago

One suitable solution I found you can leave docker-compose for easier development and then when taking it to production railway you essentially deploy github repo twice once you allow railway to detect Dockerfile and deploy it and second time you change run command to run celery

Brody•8mo ago

thats exactly right, the services would essentially be the exact same, with one having a start command to run celery

pandas•8mo ago

Communication between them should be on internal railway address but unfortunately keep in mind if you use app sleep (currently in beta) service won't wake up on internal railway address team is working on that Can you mark it as solved please? Not sure how to do it, thank you for help appreciate it

Brody•8mo ago

thank you for also helping the other user in this thread 🙂

zeroloc•7mo ago

Thanks @pandas9 and @Brody for the pointers.

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