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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788837613

Length 324 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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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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Authors (1)

Barguzar

Barguzar

Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar is a software architect and an active contributor in the open source community. He has developed a deep understanding of architecting software product development through Python web frameworks and JavaScript frameworks. He is passionate about implementing and mastering new technologies. In his free time, he researches innovative approaches to rapidly developing and designing a software product and automation testing, aiming to become a master software architect.

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