Hands-On Reactive Programming with Python

Deploying on a public server

So far, the audio encoder stack has been deployed on a local machine. However, in order to use an official TLS certificate with Let's Encrypt, a server with a public DNS entry is needed. Unless you have your own domain name already available on a server somewhere, it is not possible to use an official TLS certificate.

An easy way to get a machine with an associated DNS name is to rent a virtual machine from a cloud provider. These machines always have an associated DNS entry. It is often a purely technical name, composed of a key used as a subdomain of the provider hosting the service name, for example:

• On the Amazon Web Services EC2 service, it looks like the following: ec2-12-345-678-789.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com ...