dsd-cloudron 2026.7.2

A plugin for django-simple-deploy, supporting deployments to Cloudron.

dsd-cloudron

A django-simple-deploy plugin that configures and deploys Django projects to Cloudron. One install serves two audiences:

• Retrofit an existing project: python manage.py deploy --location <subdomain>
• Greenfield a new project: dsd-cloudron new "My App"

Both render the same Cloudron artifact set (manifest, Dockerfile, start.sh, supervisor configs, nginx, settings glue) through one packaging core.

Documentation: https://dsd-cloudron.readthedocs.io

Install

pip install dsd-cloudron
npm install -g cloudron
cloudron login my.example.com

Retrofit an existing Django project

pip install django-simple-deploy dsd-cloudron
python manage.py deploy --location blog          # config only
python manage.py deploy --location blog --automate-all   # config + install

Infra addons (PostgreSQL, Redis, sendmail) are on by default. The app-intrusive ones are opt-in: --celery generates a Celery app module wired to the Redis broker; --sso renders the Cloudron OIDC addon and a django-allauth provider config and adds the dependency, then prints the steps to finish wiring allauth into INSTALLED_APPS/urls.py and run migrate (a project scaffolded with dsd-cloudron new --sso gets that wiring automatically). Useful flags: --health-check-path, --memory-limit, --app-id, --force-overwrite, --no-redis, --no-sendmail.

Scaffold a new project

dsd-cloudron new "My App" --celery --sso
cd my_app
cloudron install -l my-app

The control surface

The generated files ARE the configuration. Edit and re-deploy:

• CloudronManifest.json - addons, memoryLimit, httpPort, healthCheckPath. healthCheckPath must return a 2xx response or the install fails its health check. Greenfield ships a /healthz/ view that returns 200.
• <project>/cloudron_settings.py - the Django glue, gated on CLOUDRON_APP_ORIGIN so it is inert during local development. Drop a /app/data/custom_settings.py on the server for ad-hoc overrides; it runs only when owned by root (create it via cloudron exec as root:cloudron mode 640), so a file the app could write itself is skipped.
• Dockerfile, start.sh, nginx.conf, supervisor/ - the runtime.

Re-running manage.py deploy is safe but not silently idempotent: the settings block is guarded, and rendered artifacts are skip-if-present (regenerate with --force-overwrite).

Iterate

# edit code or config, then:
cloudron update --app <subdomain>
cloudron logs --app <subdomain> -f

/app/data and the Postgres/Redis addons persist across updates; migrate runs on every start.

First sign-in

A local admin account is created on the first install; its generated password is saved on the server at /app/data/.initial_admin_password. Read it with cloudron exec --app <subdomain> -- cat /app/data/.initial_admin_password during the first-boot window - the file is removed automatically on the next start once the app is initialized (if you miss it, reset with manage.py changepassword admin via cloudron exec). Sign in at /admin/ and change it. With --sso, sign in with your Cloudron account; the local admin is a break-glass account for promoting your user.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.