joshua-barber / flask-docker

Fastest way to ship Python web apps, anywhere. Be shipping 🚀 (using Docker, Flask, Gunicorn, Whitenoise)

flask-docker

Fast and easy way to ship Python web apps, anywhere. Be shipping 🚀

Building apps using Python is fun. But shipping them, not so much (unlike PHP & NodeJS, which are supported almost everywhere) However, Docker makes it really easy, here is how:

• Flask: Web app framework. You could take any other WSGI framework
• Gunicorn: Production grade App server for Python
• Whitenoise: Serving static files (js, css, images etc)
• Docker: Contenarize codebase + all of the above tech to ship

Ship

In few steps, you can run on local, your colleague's local, AWS, Azure, anywhere.

Docker Container -> Container Registry -> Cloud

First build container:

• docker build . -t flask-docker:0.1

Test local container:

• Run: docker run -p 8000:8000 flask-docker:0.1
• Open: http://localhost:8000

If you want to deploy in the cloud:

• Tag it: docker tag flask-docker:0.1 container_registry.com/flask-docker:0.1
• Push to remote container registry: docker push container_registry.com/flask-docker:0.1
• Run in remote server: docker run -d -p 80:8000 flask-docker:0.1

See Dockerfile ✨🍰✨