Make test project useable in a production load testing setting

testproject/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+
+MAINTAINER Andrew Godwin <andrew@aeracode.org>
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y \
+        git \
+        python-dev \
+        python-setuptools \
+        python-pip && \
+    pip install -U pip
+
+RUN pip install channels==0.9.5 asgi_redis==0.8.3
+
+RUN git clone https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels.git /srv/application/
+
+WORKDIR /srv/application/testproject/
+
+EXPOSE 80

testproject/docker-compose.yml

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+version: '2'
+services:
+    redis:
+        image: redis
+    daphne:
+        image: channels-test
+        build: .
+        command: daphne -b 0.0.0.0 -p 80 testproject.asgi:channel_layer
+        ports:
+            - "80:80"
+        depends_on:
+          - redis
+    worker:
+        image: channels-test
+        build: .
+        command: python manage.py runworker
+        depends_on:
+          - redis

testproject/testproject/asgi.py

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+import os
+from channels.asgi import get_channel_layer
+
+os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "my_project.settings")
+
+channel_layer = get_channel_layer()

testproject/testproject/settings.py

@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ DATABASES = {
 
 CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
     "default": {
-        "BACKEND": "asgiref.inmemory.ChannelLayer",
+        "BACKEND": "asgi_redis.RedisChannelLayer",
         "ROUTING": "testproject.urls.channel_routing",
+        "CONFIG": {
+            "hosts": [os.environ.get('REDIS_URL', 'redis://redis:6379')],
+        }
     },
 }
-
-if os.environ.get("USEREDIS", None):
-    CHANNEL_BACKENDS['default']['BACKEND'] = "asgi_redis.RedisChannelLayer"