Chapter 13. Deploying Flask Apps

Now that we have reached the last chapter of the book and have a fully functioning web app made in Flask, the final step to take in our development is to make the app available for the world. There are many different approaches to host your Flask app, each of them with their own pros and cons. This chapter will cover the best solutions and guide you in what situations you should choose one over the other.

Note that, in this chapter, the term server is used to refer to the physical machine that is running the operating system. But, when the term web server is used, it refers to the program on the server that receives HTTP requests and sends responses.