Deploying a Flask Application to Elastic Beanstalk

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Local setup

1. Fork/Clone

2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   $ python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

3. Install the requirements:

   (venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Spin-up a PostgreSQL container:

   (venv)$ docker run --name flask-movies-postgres -p 5432:5432 \
   -e POSTGRES_USER=flask-movies -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=complexpassword123 \
   -e POSTGRES_DB=flask-movies -d postgres

5. Initialize the database:

   (venv)$ python init_db.py

6. Run the server:

   (venv)$ flask run

7. Navigate to http://localhost:5000/ in your favorite web browser.

Elastic Beanstalk setup

1. Install EB CLI.

2. Initialize Elastic Beanstalk:

   $ eb init

3. Create an Elastic Beanstalk environment:

   $ eb create flask-movies-env

4. Configure AWS RDS and Certificate Manager

5. Commit all the changed files to git and deploy:

   $ git add .
   $ git commit -m "updates for eb"
   
   $ eb deploy

6. Open the web application in your favorite web browser:

   $ eb open