Chapter 10. Deploying Your Application
In this chapter, we will learn how to deploy our Flask applications securely and in an automated, repeatable manner. We will see how to configure commonly used WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) capable servers such as Apache, Nginx, as well as the Python Webserver Gunicorn. Then we will see how to secure a part or the entire site using SSL, before finally wrapping up our application in a configuration management tool to automate our deployment.
In this chapter we shall learn the following topics:
- Configuring commonly-used WSGI servers
- Serving static files efficiently
- Using SSL to secure your site
- Automating deployment using Ansible
Running Flask with a WSGI server
It is important to note that Flask, by itself, ...
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