Flask starter kit for Heroku

Install

• Install Heroku
• Install Pip
• Install virtualenvwrapper
• Install pip-save
• Install Flask

Setup

• Clone this starter kit

   git clone https://github.com/abhiomkar/heroku-flask.git
  

• Login to Heroku

   heroku login
  

• Create Heroku App

   heroku create
  

Development

• Create Python virtual enviroment using pip-save tool & install all deps

   pip init
   pip install
  

• Run app locally

   python app.py
   # or
   heroku local
  

• Hack! Hack!

Deploy

• Deploy to Heroku

   git push heroku master
  

• You should see a link to your heroku app after successful deploy.

Deploy to Dokku

- [Install](http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/installation/) dokku on Host (Amazon EC2)

- Create a dokku app on Host (Amazon EC2)

	dokku apps:create dokku-flask

- Upload your public ssh key to your host (Amazon EC2). Execute this command on your local machine.

	cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh abhinay@abhiomkar.in "sudo sshcommand acl-add dokku [description]"


	- "abhinay" is the user on your host with sudo permissions
	- "abhiomkar.in" is the hostname where dokku was installed
	- ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub is your local machine's public ssh key

- Clone this repository on your local machine

	git clone https://github.com/abhiomkar/heroku-flask.git

- Add remote and push it to dokku

	cd heroku-flask
	git remote add dokku dokku@abhiomkar.in:dokku-flask
	git push dokku master

	- where dokku-flask is the name of your application which you'd created on your host.

- You should see the URL to access your application after successful deployment. :-)

Demo

https://heroku-flask.herokuapp.com/