Steps I took to generate the Django project

1. Made a new project by command django-admin startproject django_33497.
2. Set Debug = False in settings.py.
3. Set ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"] in settings.py.
4. Updated django database settings in settings.py file, to use local Postgres database and set CONN_MAX_AGE to 3600.
5. Added STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'static' in settings.py.

Setup project using docker-compose

1. In the root project directory use the docker-compose up command to spin up services.
2. Navigate to http://localhost/admin/ and log in with superuser (Username & password is django).
3. Connect to Postgres database.

Database credentials:
Name: django
Host: localhost
Port: 5432
User: django
Password: django

Connect with psql command: psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d django -U django

To see active database connections, query command SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE datname='django';.

Surf around the admin site or refresh multiple times on the Users list page for example, so you can see new idle database connections coming up.