Django as Microservice

[Adnan Muttaleb]

Hi

This my first post here, so excuse me if I am breaking any convention. I am thinking of how useful if we can create a minimal version of django using something as follow:

python manage.py createservice

So instead of creating full fledged project, we create a project (service) that more the fulfill the requirements of Microservice System instead of Monloithic System. The service version intuitivly will only contains feature that are common for a service in Microservice architecture, such as: ORM, REST-FRAMEWORK..ETC. and will exclude other features that are unlikely to be used in a service, such as: Forms, Admin-Site, Session Managment, ..etc. My list of what to include or exclude are just examplary. I am glade to here your opinions :).

[Adam Johnson]

Hi Adan,

Did you know startproject takes a URL for the template? See docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/django-admin/#startproject . You could use this to provide your microservice template in a separate location, for example a GitHub repo with a download URL.

For more advanced project templating, I've seen https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter used quite a lot. It offers a lot more features than startproject, for example fields to fill in, and is generic. This lists 26 Django templates at current.

I think because of these it's unlikely a new management command needs adding to Django core at this time. However if you do have a microservice template, please share it with the community. Perhaps there are suggestions you can bring from it back into Django core's default template to make it a bit more useful for the microservice use case.

Thanks,

Adam

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[Adnan Muttaleb]

Hi Adam

Actually I do not know, and I completly agree with you, we only need a new template not new management command. Many thanks.