Django shell mode in docker

Question

I am learning how to develop Django application in docker with this official tutorial: https://docs.docker.com/compose/django/

I have successfully run through the tutorial, and

docker-compose run web django-admin.py startproject composeexample . creates the image docker-compose up runs the application

The question is:

I often use python manage.py shell to run Django in shell mode, but I do not know how to achieve that with docker.

Answer 1

I use this command (when run with compose)

docker-compose run <service_name> python manage.py shell   

where <service name> is the name of the docker service(in docker-compose.yml).

So, In your case the command will be

docker-compose run web python manage.py shell   

https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/run/

When run with Dockerfile

docker exec -it <container_id> python manage.py shell

Answer 2

1. Run docker exec -it --user desired_user your_container bash
   Running this command has similar effect then runing ssh to remote server - after you run this command you will be inside container's bash terminal. You will be able to run all Django's manage.py commands.
2. Inside your container just run python manage.py shell