Deploying on Nginx and Gunicorn for the production environment

In this recipe, we will continue working from the previous recipe and will implement an Ansible script (playbook) to set up a production environment with Nginx and Gunicorn.

Getting ready

Check that your project configuration doesn't raise warnings when you run the following:

(env)$ python manage.py check --deploy --settings=myproject.settings.production

Make sure to have the latest stable version of Ansible.

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