How to Install a Production Database Locally

There's just levels for all this. And I think people just internalize it and forget how much there is to learn. Django comes with SQLite by default, which is file-based. But you will want to use MySQL or Postgres typically. You can spin up another virtual machine to run your database. It's better to use that locally to match which is in production. The answer for many people is you use Docker. This is the topic of my forthcoming book,. That's a long term goal of mine.