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Deliver public assets through CDN for Django

Summary

Cdn assets for a Django app on Ample. Verified on Django: a versioned, immutable-cached asset uploaded to a published bucket and served from the CDN URL. Build and start: pip install into .ample/python from requirements.txt, then waitress serving project.wsgi from run.py reading PORT on the python-3.12 template.

Resource Requirements

Compute
Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
CDN
The CDN host serves objects from published buckets. It does not front app compute and is not a cache or key-value store.

Prerequisites

A Django project (pip install into .ample/python from requirements.txt, then waitress serving project.wsgi from run.py reading PORT on the python-3.12 template)
A bucket from ample bucket create with credentials passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables
An Ample account token with servers:write, buckets:read

Workflow Steps

Build and start
pip install into .ample/python from requirements.txt, then waitress serving project.wsgi from run.py reading PORT on the python-3.12 template; the server must bind 0.0.0.0 on PORT.
Publish a bucket for public assets
Publish only the asset bucket; upload versioned keys with an immutable Cache-Control header and build URLs from its public URL.
Command: ample bucket publish
Verify
Fetch the live URL and /p/versioned-static-assets on the example; on failure read the build and runtime logs.
Command: ample logs --kind build

Success Checks

app responds on its public URL
versioned-static-assets check from the example

Limitations

Verified on the python-3.12 template at s-1vcpu-1gb; other sizes and Django major versions are not verified.
Region, compliance attestations and request-duration limits are unknown and not claimed.

Cost Estimate

Currency: USD
Monthly Amount: 5.0
Basis: size prices from pricing.toml