flask

In the last posts, I described how the Web service is created and how it works. Now it is time to deploy it on a server. This post contains some background information about server-side python, the deployment of such applications and the automation of the deployment process itself. After reading this post, you’ll know how server-side python works and how to deploy the Network Configuration Generator on a server or within a VM.

I’ll like to provide a quick overview about the Flask microframework and the associated modules and libraries that I used during the development of the Network Configuration Generator. There are many tutorials out there on “how to develop a Flask application”, therefore I will limit the code examples to a minimum in this post. I’ll focus on the resources that I’ve used for learning.