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Programming My Life

TIL: Docker Commands

I set up my main project at work to utilize LocalStack this week. I wasn't able to get it working using a virtual environment with Python, but another project at work has it set up through Docker. A coworker that is much more familiar with Docker than I am helped me get set up. Along the way, I saved these Docker commands that have already served me pretty well in debugging/figuring out what's going on in my containers:

docker compose logs -f localstack # see the logs for the localstack container

docker compose up -d localstack # -d flag is for daemon which runs in the background. Can be useful to omit to see if something is failing on startup

docker compose up -d --build web # force a rebuild

docker compose exec web bash # go into shell on the web docker container

docker compose exec localstack awslocal s3 ls s3://localstack-s3 --recursive # view files in the bucket `s3://localstack-s3` in the `localstack` container, recursively.

AWS presigned URLS in Django

Published: Sat 13 April 2019
By Andrew Mshar

In Django.

tags: Django AWS

I found the documentation for presigned URLS on AWS using boto to be insufficient, so here is how I formed the request.

I wanted to have a file private in S3, but expose it to a user for download if they were authorized to access it. I found the easiest …