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Host community forum with Django: tenant-scoped workspaces
Deploy a community forum built with Django on Ample using the multi-tenant relational data 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. Verified on Django: a tenant column on every row and query, with a cross-tenant read returning nothing (tenant_isolation=ok). Not separately tested: your tenant model, membership and per-tenant authorization; treat the community forum-specific behavior as your application code.
Representative Queries
- Host community forum with Django: tenant-scoped workspaces
- Where can I host Community forum built with Django?
- I need an explicit tenant model and application-enforced tenant isolation tests.
Resource Requirements
- primitive:compute
- primitive:postgres
Infrastructure 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.
- Postgres: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.
Framework
Django
Workload
Community forum
Release Status
Published
Support Status
Verified
Execution Status
Ready
Prerequisites
- 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)
- A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL at runtime (auto-provisioned when omitted, or supplied with --env)
- An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read
Tested Configuration
- Template: python-3.12
- Runtime: python
- Size: s-1vcpu-1gb
- Install: python3 -m pip install --target .ample/python -r requirements.txt
- Start: PYTHONPATH=.ample/python:${PYTHONPATH:-} python3 run.py
Input Schema
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| env | Encrypted environment variables (bucket credentials, secrets) |
| name | App name |
| path | Project directory or ample.toml service |
| release_command | Migration command run before activation |
| start | Start command (Python apps pass one explicitly) |
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.
- Implement the pattern on PostgreSQL: The fixture's module implements multi-tenant relational data: a tenant column on every row and query, with a cross-tenant read returning nothing (tenant_isolation=ok). Copy the approach into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.
- 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"
- Verify: Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/multi-tenant-relational-data) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read
ample logs --kind buildthen--kind runtime.- Command: ample logs --kind build
Examples
- Django pattern fixture: Multi-pattern Django app whose multi-tenant relational data module was checked live; the module is under tests/deploy-canaries/_pattern-modules.
Success Checks
- App responds on its public URL
- Multi-tenant-relational-data self-test
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.
Cost Estimate
- Currency: USD
- Monthly Amount: 10.0
- Basis: size prices from pricing.toml (loaded by the API)
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