I am very good at containerizing and deploying projects. So I usually do that part immediately because I have patterns for it and it takes less than an hour to get started. This is how I start a new project:
1) I use Gitlab. So I make a quick gitlab-ci.yml and have a few steps. Test, Build, and Deploy. Test might just run one fake test to start. Build might do nothing much. Deploy might do nothing much at first.
2) Stick the project into a docker container. So create a simple Dockerfile. Make sure I can run the app from within the Dockerfile. Make sure the Dockerfile builds from Gitlab from the gitlab-ci.yml (which is the build step).
3) Deploy the app to AWS. I like ECS but maybe it's a lambda and I deploy it to Lambda. Just depends on what I am building. I update the gitlab-ci.yml to do that (this is the deploy step).
4 - forever) Code and only update the gitlab-ci.yml when I need to.
Honestly, the whole thing really takes less than an hour and I never have to worry about build and deploy after that. I say do it early. Also, don't over complicate it. Especially if you are using Django.
I happen to be a huge fan of Gitlab, and that is one of the reasons yes. I don't think Github is bad by any means, but I like the Gitlab roadmap.
There are a number of really good CICD systems for Github. If you like Github, pick it and go for it. Just get started and don't spend more than an hour thinking about the whole thing. That's where the waste really comes in. Spending all of that time thinking instead of just doing.
1) I use Gitlab. So I make a quick gitlab-ci.yml and have a few steps. Test, Build, and Deploy. Test might just run one fake test to start. Build might do nothing much. Deploy might do nothing much at first.
2) Stick the project into a docker container. So create a simple Dockerfile. Make sure I can run the app from within the Dockerfile. Make sure the Dockerfile builds from Gitlab from the gitlab-ci.yml (which is the build step).
3) Deploy the app to AWS. I like ECS but maybe it's a lambda and I deploy it to Lambda. Just depends on what I am building. I update the gitlab-ci.yml to do that (this is the deploy step).
4 - forever) Code and only update the gitlab-ci.yml when I need to.
Honestly, the whole thing really takes less than an hour and I never have to worry about build and deploy after that. I say do it early. Also, don't over complicate it. Especially if you are using Django.