azure-lightning-flask 0.0.1

Lightning deployment strategy on Azure with Flask

A Flask server to serve single-page applications deployed using the lightning strategy on Azure Table Storage. Designed to work with Ember-cli-deploy-azure, but should be compatible with any lightning strategy deployment on Azure Table Storage via configuration. Developed with Python 2.7

Installation

It is recommended that you install and run azure_lightning_flask inside of a virtualenv

virtualenv venv
. venv/bin/activate

Via pip

pip install azure_lightning_flask

Manual

Download the application files and in the root directory run

pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Application Configuration

Configure the application by setting environment variables. All application configuration variables without a default must be set.

This application serves content from Azure Storage Table requiring an Azure account and a storage table to be setup for some of the required configuration.

Environment Variable	Usage	Default
AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT	The name of the Azure Storage account to be used	None (Must be set)
AZURE_STORAGE_KEY	The key for the given Azure Storage account	None (Must be set)
AZURE_STORAGE_TABLE	The name of the table where revisions are stored	emberdeploy
AZURE_STORAGE_TABLE_P ARTITION_KEY	The partition key to search under	manifest
APP_NAME	The name of the application being served	None (Must be set)
REVISION_PARAMETER	The query parameter used to request specific revisions	index_key

Running

After it is configured, run the application with

azure_lightning_flask

Flask configuration

Flask configuration values can also be set via environment variables as the environment is merged into the flask configuration via flask-env.

Running tests

python setup.py nosetests