pogzyb / deploy-flask-into-aws-with-terraform

Sample Flask app with Postgres db as well as the complete terraform code used to launch the app in AWS (ECS, RDS, ALB, etc.)

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...