Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

There are a few conventions that need to be followed in order to deploy using Beanstalk. It assumes that there will be a file called application.py, which contains the application object (in our case, the app object). Beanstalk treats this file as the WSGI file, and this is used for deployment. Let's get started.

In the Deploying with Apache recipe, we had a file named app.wgsi where we referred to our app object as application because apache/mod_wsgi needed it to be so. The same thing happens here because Amazon, by default, deploys using Apache behind the scenes.

1. The contents of this application.py file will be just a few lines long, as shown here:

from my_app import app as application import sys, logging logging.basicConfig(stream ...