Easily deploy your Python Flask web apps online with Gitlab and Heroku

About the tools

We will start with a summary of the tools that we will use:

• VS Code: Popular code editor.
• Flask: Small web server that we can set up with little code.
• Gunicorn: A simple WSGI HTTP Server in which we can mount Flask.
• Postman: An easy platform to test our Rest APIs.
• Gitlab: Version control service in the cloud and DevOps integration.
• Heroku: Platform that allows us to upload projects and deploy them online.

What do we need?

• Create your web app with Flask.
• Prepare your project repository with Gitlab.
• Create an account in Heroku.

Configuring our project: Flask and Gunicorn

In this section we gonna prepare our Flask app, the Heroku deploy file and the Gitlab CI configuration.

Now I have a developer blog, continue reading this post here: https://hhsm95.dev/blog/easily-deploy-python-flask-app-with-gitlab-heroku/

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