yappa 0.4.12

Easy serverless deploy of python web applications

Simple deploy of python web-apps @YandexCloud

Forget about setting up your own infrastructure, vps, network, orchestrators, etc... go serverless

• Quickstart
  • Updates
• Deployment examples
• Django
  • Management commands
  • Creating superuser
• Yandex Cloud authorization
• Limitations
  • Database connectivity
  • Headers and authorization
• Articles
• Roadmap
  • Next steps
  • Far-faraway plans
• Troubleshooting
• Support and contribution
• Acknowledgements

Quickstart

1. setup virtual env, create your app
2. create account at Yandex Cloud
3. install Yappa

$ pip install yappa -U
$ pip freeze > requirements.txt

4. use Yappa:

$ yappa setup
$ yappa deploy

...that's it! Your application is deployed

Updates

when your code is updated just run

$ yappa deploy

Deployment examples

Both WSGI and ASGI applications are supported (as well as raw functions). So Django, Flask, FastAPI... etc could be easily deployed.

Furthermore, not just regular json API could be deployed this way. Several types of applications could be launched with Yappa:

• raw serverless function
• json API (Flask, FastAPI, Django rest framework)
• regular Django app
• single page application
• SPA + multiple API versions
  ...
  more examples will be added soon

Django

Management commands

django manage.py commands are supported. just run

$ yappa manage migrate

In order to support management commands, for Django projects second cloud function is being created every deploy. It's made only for handling management commands, and it's not public. Therefore, commands do not support user inputs: to every command '--no-input' flag is added.

Creating superuser

As of Django 3.0 env variables are supported for createsuperuser command. So you should deploy your app with DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME, DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD environment variables. Then run

$ yappa manage createsuperuser

The other way around would be to implement custom management command (see StackOverflow topic)

Yandex Cloud authorization

Command '$ yappa setup' prompts you for OAuth token. Then, Yappa creates service account "yappa-uploader-service" with roles editor and serverless.functions.admin for the specified folder. Key for this account is created and saved locally at .yc file.

Command '$ yappa deploy' supports two types of authorization

• service account key saved at .yc file (generated during '$ yappa setup')
• environment variables YC_OAUTH and YC_FOLDER

Limitations

There are some limitations, however YandexCloud team is constantly releasing the features and services. Also, the team of this project will try to keep up. So stay tuned :)

Database connectivity

Managed Postgres and YandexDB is supported inside Yandex Cloud. Any other database you use has to have public IP address

For details on how te set up connection with managed postgres please refer to

• YandexCloud docs
• raw function + Postgres example
• django example

Headers and authorization

Please note that some request headers (like Authorization) are deleted before function is invoked

Articles

• https://habr.com/ru/post/569674/

Roadmap

Listed order may not be the chronological order of implementation. However, it's up to you, welcome to our telegram chat

Next steps

• tests
  • if db connection is not updated - poll for hours
  • stress test
• Django support
  • postgres support
    • add docs about psycopg2 in requirements
  • support of S3 storage
• Improvements in CLI
  • env variables at deploy command
  • validation of inputs at yappa setup
  • validation of requirements and entrypoint at yappa deploy
  • auto-suggestion of app path (trying to load asgi or wsgi app)
  • upload_to_bucket - add progress bar
• Error handling
  • no access
• Documentation
  • add deployment examples
    • pretty flask app
    • django + postgres
    • classic django with s3
    • SPA
    • SPA + DRF + authorization
    • SPA + two api versions
  • habr articles with deployment examples
  • habr article with full cycle of web-site (from code to domain)
• Random features
  • tests for POST calls to gw and function
  • refactor tests: make integration tests for all apps. make it uniform
  • delete s3 key after deploy
  • avoiding s3 or avoiding reinstalling of all pip packages
  • cli logs command
  • why flask.app not working, fix it

Far-faraway plans

• health checks and revert policy
• celery support
• django: ydb orm support

Troubleshooting

• installing grpcio on Apple M1: installing with anaconda may help. Also look at stackoverflow

Support and contribution

Feel free to make pull request or ask anything at telegram chat
Also looking for contributors %)

Acknowledgements

• Mikhail Novikov for starting this project two years ago
• httpx as a great tool for calling WSGI/ASGI apps offline
• Zappa for inspiration