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Some useful tips for running Django / Wagtail in Cloud Run and Firebase Hosting.

1. This tutorial is a great resource: https://cloud.google.com/python/django/run
2. Whitenoise gives a simple solution for static file serving from Django, and Firebase Hosting or CDN can provide caching.
3. The following settings are needed:

# Cloudrun compatibility https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/manage-cache#using_cookies

# "Only the specially-named __session cookie is permitted to pass through to # the execution of your app."

SESSION_COOKIE_NAME = …

This is a helpful bash function to print a command and the time taken.

Note that we need to explicitly use /usr/bin/time to avoid calling the bash built-in time.

time_debug() {

# output the command and real time taken

/usr/bin/time -f "%C # %e seconds" "$@"

}

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/10747/11583

This site is an experiment in running SQLite in production, with servers that auto-scale to zero.

The key point is to limit the site to a single instance, so any updates are going to one instance of the database.

Litestream is used to replicate the database to/from a storage bucket, providing backup, but also providing a mechanism to scale the app down to zero.

Benefits

1. Cost: No need to have …