There are several things to do in order to prepare caching for your Django project. First, let's examine how this would be done for a virtual environment project:

1. Install the memcached server, as follows:

$ wget http://memcached.org/files/memcached-1.5.7.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf memcached-1.4.23.tar.gz
$ cd memcached-1.4.23
$ ./configure && make && make test && sudo make install

2. Start the memcached server, as shown in the following:

$ memcached -d

3. Install Memcached Python bindings in your virtual environment, as follows:

(myproject_env)$ pip3 install python-memcached~=1.59.0

If using a Docker environment, follow these steps instead:

1. Update your docker-compose.yml file to associate a Memcached container with your app, as in the following:

# docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
  # ...
  memcached:
    image: 'memcached:1.5'
  app:
    # ...
    environment:
      # ...
      - "CACHE_LOCATION=memcached:11211"

2. Include the Memcached Python bindings in the requirements for your app container, like so:

# requirements.txt or requirements/base.txt
# ...
python-memcached~=1.59.0

3. Stop, build, and restart your containers.