Django-Hurricane
The open source tool for Django development with Kubernetes
Django-Hurricane matches Django & Cloud Native development
We have always been fans of open source and use it in many of our projects. Since we use the Django framework a lot and Kubernetes{.text-bs-blue .hover:underline .hover:decoration-bs-blue . hover:decoration-solid} is increasingly present in our projects, we set ourselves the challenge of how best to develop with Django in a cloud native environment. And we have found the perfect solution: Django-Hurricane!
Django-Hurricane is an open source tool for all Django developers who also rely on Cloud Native. Hurricane offers a simple, seamless, high-performance and reliable way to develop and operate Django in a cloud-native environment. Hurricane also rely on Tornado - for lightning-fast processing of all HTTP requests. Django-Hurricane also comes with additional features such as webhooks for probe events, specific management commands, simple configurations and the luxury of having to write as little boilerplate code as possible.
You can read how exactly we came up with the idea for the Django-Hurricane open source project in our blog post.
What is Django-Hurricane about?
The goal of Django-Hurricane is to build robust and scalable applications with Django by leveraging the existing know-how of our favourite framework.
- Top-notch integration of Django and Kubernetes
- Django application server based on Tornado
- Django AMQP client based on Tornado
- Out-of-the-box Kubernetes Probe endpoints
- Webhooks for checking the application status
Kubernetes & Django-Hurricane
With the advent of Kubernetes and cloud-native-development, some new possibilities have emerged for operating service-based applications more securely and stably, while at the same time being able to scale them better and faster. The inherently monolithic design of Django can make it tempting to roll out recurring operational patterns with every application, so Kubernetes is the perfect solution for web development with the Django framework.
Django-Hurricane is not about getting Django running in a Kubernetes cluster, but about integrating Django as tightly as possible into Kubernetes to utilise the full power of this framework. The main focus is on creating modern and secure applications with the Django framework.
Blueshoe is your expert for Django-Hurricane
There is no better expert for Django-Hurricane. Why is that? Because we made it up. And because we built it ourselves. No more and no less.
As a software agency, we can also look back on many years of experience in the development and operation of Django applications. The Django expertise of our team naturally flows one-to-one into the further development of Django-Hurricane.
We are constantly working on the technical documentation. For the first steps, we have created a Getting Started Guide. You can also always find announcements, ideas and technical developments in our discussion forums on GitHub. We offer worldwide support for Django-Hurricane. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us directly hurricane@blueshoe.io
We can help you to optimise your Django development.
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