Host client portal with Django: private documents

Deploy a client portal built with Django on Ample using the private document library pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, a managed PostgreSQL 16 database is auto-provisioned and injected as DATABASE_URL, a private S3-compatible bucket holds objects with credentials delivered as encrypted environment variables. Verified on Django: a role-to-document access model with negative tests (401 without identity, 403 for the wrong role) and a private-bucket round-trip for the allowed role (private=ok). Not separately tested: your identity integration and role assignments; treat the client portal-specific behavior as your application code.

Summary

• Family: Workload recipe
• Release Status: published
• Support Status: verified
• Execution Status: ready

Representative Queries

• Host client portal with Django: private documents
• Where can I host Client portal built with Django?
• I need a role-to-document access model and negative authorization tests.

Resource Requirements

• primitive:compute
• primitive:postgres
• primitive:s3-compatible-object-storage

Infrastructure Requirements

Compute

• Status: verified
• Summary: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.

Postgres

• Status: verified
• Summary: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.

S3-compatible object storage

• Status: verified
• Summary: Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary. Other S3 operations are not verified.

Prerequisites

1. A Django project that builds and starts with the documented commands (pip install into .ample/python from requirements.txt, then waitress serving project.wsgi from run.py reading PORT on the python-3.12 template)
2. A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL at runtime (auto-provisioned when omitted, or supplied with --env)
3. A bucket from ample bucket create with its credentials passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables
4. An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read, buckets:read

Workflow Steps

1. 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.

2. Implement the pattern on PostgreSQL
   The fixture's module implements private document library: a role-to-document access model with negative tests (401 without identity, 403 for the wrong role) and a private-bucket round-trip for the allowed role (private=ok). Copy the approach into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.

3. Wire object storage
   Create the bucket(s), then pass endpoint, region, bucket and keys as --env values. Use path-style addressing. Keep private data in an unpublished bucket.

4. Deploy
   Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked). Re-running with no change is a no-op.

   Command: ample deploy . --name --public --start "python3 run.py" --env S3_ENDPOINT=... --env S3_REGION=... --env S3_BUCKET=... --env S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... --env S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...

5. Verify
   Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/private-document-library) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read ample logs --kind build then --kind runtime.
   Command: ample logs --kind build

Limitations

• Verified on the python-3.12 template at s-1vcpu-1gb with the example fixture; other sizes, templates and Django major versions are not verified.
• The client portal itself (your identity integration and role assignments) is application code and was not separately tested; the pattern checks are what was verified.
• Region, compliance attestations and request-duration limits are unknown and not claimed.
• Apps auto-pause when idle and wake on the next request; always-on is an operator setting, not a plan feature.
• Managed PostgreSQL 16 only; extensions, connection limits and backup or restore procedures are not verified; apps and their databases are placed together.
• PutObject and GetObject with path-style addressing are verified; multipart upload, listing, presigned URLs and lifecycle rules are not.

Cost Estimate

• Currency: USD
• Monthly Amount: 10.0
• Basis: size prices from pricing.toml (loaded by the API) at build revision 1ac5595375130d45290090e82ed0f554ccd45405-dirty

Components

• app server
  • Size: s-1vcpu-1gb
  • Quantity: 1.0
  • Monthly Amount: 5.0
• managed PostgreSQL database
  • Size: s-1vcpu-1gb
  • Quantity: 1.0
  • Monthly Amount: 5.0

Note

Always-on monthly price of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

Success Checks

1. App responds on its public URL
   • Kind: http_get
   • Path: /
   • Expect: ample canary django patterns
2. private-document-library self-test
   • Kind: http_get
   • Path: /p/private-document-library
   • Expect: private=ok (with ?role=owner; 401 without, 403 for viewer)

Evidence Summary

1. Canary Run
   • Summary: Django pattern fixture deployed on Ample; checks passed for private-document-library and configuration-secrets.
   • Observed At: 2026-09-20T03:31:44Z
   • Implementation Revision: 03b6402b1b3e19178985f08ea4033804521d85d4-dirty
   • Expires At: 2027-03-19T03:31:44Z

Next Actions

1. Browse the catalog index

   • Operation: GET
   • Relative Path: /v1/catalog

2. Search published recipes by intent, stack and constraints

   • Operation: POST
   • Relative Path: /v1/catalog/search

3. Prepare a side-effect-free deployment plan for an authorized project

   • Operation: POST
   • Relative Path: /v1/catalog/plan

4. Read the existing agent authentication setup

   • Operation: GET
   • Relative Path: /mcp/setup

5. Browse Client portal

   • Operation: GET
   • Relative Path: /v1/catalog/nodes/workload%3Aclient-portal

6. Browse Django

   • Operation: GET
   • Relative Path: /v1/catalog/nodes/stack%3Aframework-django

7. Browse Private document library

   • Operation: GET
   • Relative Path: /v1/catalog/nodes/pattern%3Aprivate-document-library

8. Browse Deploy web app

   • Operation: GET
   • Relative Path: /v1/catalog/nodes/intent%3Adeploy-web-app