Configuring with Zappa

In order to configure Zappa, it's required that you have Zappa installed, as mentioned in the previous chapter. Zappa provides the zappa initcommand,which enables a user interactive mode initialization so that we can configure the Python application.

I followed the default configuration settings that were suggested by the zappa init command. This generates the zappa_settings.json file, which is the backbone for configuring any Python application with Zappa.

Here is the content of the zappa_settings.json file:

{
  "dev": {
      "app_function": "hello_world.app",
      "aws_region": "ap-south-1",
      "profile_name": "default",
      "project_name": "flask-todo",
      "runtime": "python3.6",
      "s3_bucket": "zappa-yrze3w53y"
  }
}

 

 

 

 

Now, during initialization, Zappa has the ability to identify the type of your Python application and generate the set attributes accordingly. In our case, Zappa detected the Python program as a Flask application. Hence, it asked for...