Django Keel – 10 Years of Django Best Practices in One Template
After a decade of shipping Django to production, I got tired of solving the same setup problems on every new project. Environment-first settings. Sensible auth defaults. Structured logging. CI from day zero. Pre-commit hooks. Docker. Security hardening. Every project meant two days of boilerplate before writing business logic. So I built Django Keel: a production-ready Django starter that eliminates the yak-shaving. GitHub: https://github.com/CuriousLearner/django-keel *What you get*: - 12-factor config with environment-based secrets - Production-hardened security…
Django Keel – 10 Years of Django Best Practices in One Template launched on October 21, 2025 with 25 votes, #519 of 8,178 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Django Keel is a production-ready Django starter template that eliminates repetitive setup work. It includes environment-based configuration, security hardening, structured logging, Docker support, CI pipelines, and pre-commit hooks built in. Designed for developers who ship Django projects to production, it cuts initial boilerplate setup from days to hours, letting teams focus on business logic instead of infrastructure configuration.
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From the sources
Django Keel is an opinionated, production-ready baseline: 12-factor settings, security defaults, pre-commit + ruff/mypy/pytest, GitHub Actions, Docker/Compose, health/ready endpoints, and starter deploy configs (Render, Fly.io, EC2+Ansible, ECS, K8s).
A versatile, production-ready Django project template for any use case Build SaaS applications, API backends, web apps, or internal tools with one template. - CuriousLearner/django-keel
In the maker’s words, at launch
After a decade of shipping Django to production, I got tired of solving the same setup problems on every new project. Environment-first settings. Sensible auth defaults. Structured logging. CI from day zero. Pre-commit hooks. Docker. Security hardening. Every project meant two days of boilerplate before writing…
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