Daniel Roy Greenfeld

Cookiecutter Django

Open-source generator for production-ready Django projects: allauth registration, Docker, Celery, 12-factor settings and 100% starting test coverage.

Free★ 13,632 starsLast commit Oct 2026

Django
Open Source
Docker
Celery
PostgreSQL
Auth
Project Generator

Cookiecutter Django is a project template that renders new Django projects (Django 6.0, Python 3.14) with production and development settings, a custom user model and registration via django-allauth. It includes Docker Compose setups with Traefik and Let's Encrypt, a Heroku Procfile, PythonAnywhere instructions, and email via Anymail. Optional integrations cover Celery with Flower, S3/GCS/Azure static and media storage, Whitenoise and Sentry.

Key Benefits

Generated projects start with 100% test coverage
Registration and custom user model via django-allauth out of the box
Docker Compose for dev and production with Traefik and Let's Encrypt
12-factor settings via django-environ, secure by default
Optional Celery, Flower, Sentry and cloud storage integrations
Large community project with 13k+ GitHub stars

What's Included

Authentication & Payments

User Authentication
Subscription Management
Invoice Generation

Content & Marketing

Content Management
Blog System
Email Templates
SEO Optimization
Landing Pages

Technical Stack

Backend

Django
Python
PostgreSQL
Celery

Libraries

django-allauth
django-environ
Anymail
Bootstrap 5
Traefik
Sentry
pytest

Hosting

Docker
Heroku
PythonAnywhere

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Key Benefits

Generated projects start with 100% test coverage

Registration and custom user model via django-allauth out of the box

Docker Compose for dev and production with Traefik and Let's Encrypt

12-factor settings via django-environ, secure by default

Optional Celery, Flower, Sentry and cloud storage integrations

Large community project with 13k+ GitHub stars

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