This is a simple flask application
This app is designed to run in different ways:
- As a standalone app running on your machine
- As a Docker container running locally
- As a Docker image published in Docker Hub
- As an application hosted by IBM Cloud
- install python
git clone
the project thencd
into the directory- run
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv
orpython -m venv venv
to create a virtual environment - activate it using
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
to install the app libaries and it dependencies
After installing, run the server using python app.py
Access the running app in a browser at the URL written to the console (most likely http://localhost:5000)
- install Docker
run docker --version
to check if docker is installed- run
docker build -t flask-hello-world:latest .
to build the docker image docker images
list the local avaible images- run
docker run --name flask_hello_world -d -p 8000:5000 --rm flask-hello-world:latest
to start the container - Navigate to http://localhost:8000 in a browser to see the results. If you want to share it with your local network devices navigate to http://[your-ip-address]:8000
Docker Hub is a free service to publicly store available images.
- you need to install only Docker
- just run
docker run -d -p 8080:5000 --name flask ahmnouira/flask-hello-world
Before you begin, verify that you have completed the below steps:
- you have access to an IBM Cloud account.
- the IBM Cloud CLI is installed in your workstation.
- clone the repository by running
git clone https://github.com/AhmNouira/flask-hello-world
cd flask-hello-world
- run
bx login
to login to your IBM cloud account and enter your email and password bx target --cf
to target the Cloud Foundary To check the default organization and space to which you have access, go to https://cloud.ibm.com/account/cloud-foundry.bx cf push
to push the application to IBM Cloud- if you found any error run
bx cf logs flask-hello-world --recent
to see the troubleshoot - check whether your app is running
bx cf app flask-hello-world
- to explore how your app directories are structured
bx cf ssh flask-hello-world