AWS Microservice Bootstrap Code for Flask

This project contains bootstrap code to speed up the development of AWS based microservices built with Flask.

This project is an extension of microgue: https://pypi.org/project/microgue/

Working On Microflask

Repo: https://bitbucket.org/michaelhudelson/microflask/src/main

Clone: git clone https://bitbucket.org/michaelhudelson/microflask/src/main

Requirements

• Python 3.7+

Pre-Setup

• Make sure you have an IAM user created with correct permissions in your AWS account

  • Create an Access Key on that user

  • Install awscli pip install awscli

  • Add that Access Key with aws configure

  • Verify you are using the correct Access Key with aws configure list

  • You can also verify by looking at the file ~/.aws/credentials

Install Microflask

pip install microflask

Flask Setup (Optional)

• Put the following code in the app.py file in the root of the project

import logging
from microflask.abstract_app import AbstractApp

logging.basicConfig()


class App(AbstractApp):
    pass


app = App().app

• In the terminal run the following commands

export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
export FLASK_DEBUG=1
flask run

• GET http://127.0.0.1:5000

Distribution

# update version in setup.py

# commit and push changes
git add .
git commit -m "v1.0.X"
git push origin main

# tag the commit and push
git tag -a v1.0.X -m "Release v1.0.X"
git push --tags

# package with:
source venv/bin/activate
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

# https://pypi.org/project/microflask/
# upload to pypi with:
python -m twine upload dist/*

# OPTIONAL
# https://test.pypi.org/project/microflask/
# upload to test pypi with:
twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

Backlog

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