Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
executable file
·
92 lines (62 loc) · 3.23 KB

README.md

File metadata and controls

executable file
·
92 lines (62 loc) · 3.23 KB
Raw

flask-hello-world

This is a simple flask application

Overview

hello_ahmed

Running this app

This app is designed to run in different ways:

  1. As a standalone app running on your machine
  2. As a Docker container running locally
  3. As a Docker image published in Docker Hub
  4. As an application hosted by IBM Cloud

1. As a standalone app

  1. install python
  2. git clone the project then cd into the directory
  3. run virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venvor python -m venv venv to create a virtual environment
  4. activate it using source venv/bin/activate
  5. pip install -r requirements.txt to install the app libraries and it dependencies

running the app

After installing, run the server using python app.py Access the running app in a browser at the URL written to the console (most likely http://localhost:5000)

2. As a Docker container running on your machine

  1. install Docker
  2. run docker --version to check if docker is installed
  3. run docker build -t flask-hello-world:latest . to build the docker image
  4. docker images list the local available images
  5. run docker run --name flask_hello_world -d -p 8000:5000 --rm flask-hello-world:latest to start the container
  6. Navigate to http://localhost:8000 in a browser to see the results. If you want to share it with your local network devices navigate to http://[your-ip-address]:8000

3. As a Docker image published in Docker Hub

Docker Hub is a free service to publicly store available images.

  1. you need to install only Docker
  2. just run docker run -d -p 8080:5000 --name flask ahmnouira/flask-hello-world

my_docker_hub

4. As an application hosted by IBM Cloud

:octocat: Before you begin, verify that you have completed the below steps:

  1. clone the repository by running git clone https://github.com/AhmNouira/flask-hello-world
  2. cd flask-hello-world
  3. run bx login to login to your IBM cloud account and enter your email and password
  4. bx target --cf to target the Cloud Foundry To check the default organization and space to which you have access, go to https://cloud.ibm.com/account/cloud-foundry.
  5. bx cf push to push the application to IBM Cloud
  6. if you found any error run bx cf logs flask-hello-world --recent to see the troubleshoot
  7. check whether your app is running bx cf app flask-hello-world
  8. to explore how your app directories are structured bx cf ssh flask-hello-world

ibm_cloud

5. Push a new image

Login to the docker.io using the access token

docker login -u ahmnouira docker.io

Build and tag

docker build -t flask-hello-world:latest .

Tag it as per the docker hub repository name

docker tag flask-hello-world:latest ahmnouira/flask-hello-world:latest

Push the a new image:

docker image push ahmnouira/flask-hello-world:latest