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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

You're reading from   Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa Build and deploy serverless applications on AWS using Zappa

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837613
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
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Preface 1. Amazon Web Services for Serverless FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Zappa 3. Building a Flask Application with Zappa 4. Building a Flask-Based REST API with Zappa 5. Building a Django Application with Zappa 6. Building a Django REST API with Zappa 7. Building a Falcon Application with Zappa 8. Custom Domain with SSL 9. Asynchronous Task Execution on AWS Lambda 10. Advanced Zappa Settings 11. Securing Serverless Applications with Zappa 12. Zappa with Docker 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing and configuring Zappa

Installing Zappa is a straightforward task, but before we move ahead, we need to configure the prerequisites. Make sure you have Python 2.7 or Python 3.6 and have a valid AWS account. Now, you need to configure the AWS credentials on your machine with help awscli:

$ pip install awscli

Configure the AWS credentials using the aws configure command, as shown in the following screenshot:

The configuration for AWS credentials requires that you have an AWS Access Key ID, AWS Secret Access Key, Default region name, and a Default output format.

You can get AWS credential information from your My Security Credentials page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once you've configured your AWS credentials, we can move ahead with Zappa's installation.

Zappa must be installed in a virtual environment. It's strongly recommended...

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