Creating the Houses App with Django

Navigating the Docker container

To create a new app inside an existing or running Docker container, we must first go into the container and locate the service in which we want to create the application. In our case, we have to shell into our backend service inside the Docker container with the following command:

Creating the new app

Once we are inside the backend service in the container, we can start creating the app. Since it is a Django app that we want to create, we can now issue the following command:

We can also use:

Any of these will create the Houses app in the backend service inside the Docker container.

The Houses app content

Once the Houses app is created, we'll have a houses folder inside the backendservices1. Let’s look at the contents of the Houses app we've created and what its files and folders do.

• migrations/: This Python package inside the houses/ package stores all the changes to our ...