Simple Profile

A demo Flask web application for AWS(Amazon Web Services) beginner.

Dependencies

This project is based on:

• Python3
• Flask
• PyMySQL
• SQLAlchemy

and use these:

• Alembic
• uWSGI
• NGINX
• Bower
• Docker

Configuration

This application fetch the configurations from the shell environment variables.

The shell environment variables used on this app are like below.

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• FLASKS3_BUCKET_NAME
• MYSQL_HOST
• MYSQL_PORT
• MYSQL_USER
• MYSQL_PASSWORD
• MYSQL_DATABASE

Drop all database tables and create the database models like:

$ flask initdb

You can minify CSS files, Javascript files using following command:

$ flask build_compressed_assets

The static resources can be uploaded on Amazon S3 using below command:

$ flask upload_to_s3

Development Environment

You can install the dependencies related with frontend and backend like:

$ bower install
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Or simply, you can run scripts/install.sh like below:

$ scripts/install.sh

This application can be started with below command.
Before you start this app, check the whether shell environment variables were set.

$ flask run

Deployment

This app can be deployed with docker-compose or Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.
You must provide a correct value to shell environment variables on docker-compose.yml file or Dockerrun.aws.json.

Docker Compose

$ docker-compose up -d

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

$ eb init
$ eb create

TroubleShooting

• Can't execute flask CLI commands!

  Set the shell environment variable FLASK_APP like below:

  $ export FLASK_APP=`pwd`/run.py

License

MIT