README.md

Demo project for deploying apps into AWS

0. Contents

• src/
  • contains a simple Python Flask application, which is hooked up to Postgres Database
  • the application was updated to utilize "threads" and "js polling" for long-running background tasks
• terraform/
  • contains the terraform code necessary to deploy the application into AWS
  • infrastructure components are all automatically provisioned when terraform apply is run

1. Prereqs

• docker
• terraform
• aws account with aws-cli installed and configured

2. How-to

• work-in-progress...