Deployment: Storage - how to manage media files

[douglasmiranda]

• Maybe add an alternative to S3
• Add or document Minio
• Document options
• Setting up a CDN

[douglasmiranda]

I have worked with Minio before in other projects. I'm thinking it will be really nice to use Minio as the storage and then using something like django-minio-storage.

• It can be used for media files and static
• I can use the local cache feature to speed up things (like slow collectstatic)
• Need to confirm if it works with ManifestFilesMixin

[douglasmiranda]

I guess in the docs I'll favor django-storages because everyone knows it.

• Execute collectstatic as a one-time job, before deploy your Django service, therefore remove/comment from entrypoint
• (still need to check the issue with ManifestFilesMixin as I find mandatory to use so we can leverage the power of a CDN cache in front of our app)

Then mention the alternatives of using Minio or how some people do with Google Cloud Storage.

• https://github.com/minio/minio
• https://github.com/py-pa/django-minio-storage
• https://github.com/alexellis/jaas
• https://cloud.google.com/python/django/container-engine#deploy_the_app_to_container_engine