• Create an account at render.com

• Click here to create a new Web Service on Render.com

• Plug in public GitHub URL

  

  • or choose GitHub as a “Git Provider” and sign in with OAuth

• make sure language is Python 3

• build command:  uv sync --frozen && uv cache prune --ci && uv run manage.py makemigrations && uv run manage.py migrate

• start command: uv run manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:$PORT (this is a dev server, for prod deployments use gunicorn)

• choose Instance type: Free

• Configure environment variables

  For Django (use “From .env file” for convenience):

  ALLOWED_HOSTS=*
  CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS=https://*.onrender.com
  

  Don’t forget env vars from the .env.local file if you are using 3rd party APIs.

• Deploy!

Bonus: Configure a PostgreSQL database on Render.com

• Click here to create a new Postgres DB on Render.com

  • Or choose from the menu

• choose Free instance

  

• copy internal connection URL to the DATABASE_URL env variable

  

• In you main project, prepend uv add psycopg2-binary && to build command:

  • uv add psycopg2-binary && uv sync --frozen && uv cache prune --ci && uv run manage.py migrate

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