while(motivation <= 0)

This weekend started by working on a “one time secret” clone for personal use. ChatGPT got me 80% of the way there and I spent the rest of the day tweaking and improving upon the code it wrote. Sunday I set about getting the v2 of my blog production ready by introducing waitress which is the recommended method for hosting python flask web applications and then containerizing the application so that it’s easy to stay on the latest fully supported version of python which updates frequently. Cool scripts from this past weekend:

FROM public.ecr.aws/docker/library/python:3.12

WORKDIR /tmp
# Add sample application
ADD app.py /tmp/app.py
ADD objects.py /tmp/objects.py
ADD hash.py /tmp/hash.py

COPY templates /tmp/templates
COPY static /tmp/static


COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt

RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt

EXPOSE 8080

# Run it
CMD [ "waitress-serve", "app:app" ]

#!/bin/bash

docker build --tag vacuumflask .
imageid=$(docker image ls | grep -w "vacuumflask" | awk '{print $3}')
docker run  --env-file "/home/colin/python/blog2/vacuumflask/.env" \
--volume /home/colin/python/blog2/vacuumflask/data:/tmp/data \
-p 8080:8080 \
 "$imageid"

#!/bin/bash
destination="beanstalk/"
zipPrefix="vacuumflask-"
zipPostfix=$(date '+%Y%m%d')
zipFileName="$zipPrefix$zipPostfix.zip"
mkdir "$destination"
cp -a templates/. "$destination/templates"
cp -a static/. "$destination/static"
cp app.py "$destination"
cp Dockerfile "$destination"
cp hash.py "$destination"
cp objects.py "$destination"
cp requirements.txt "$destination"
cd "$destination"
zip -r "../$zipFileName" "."
cd ../
rm -r "$destination"
scp "$zipFileName" project:blog2
scp docker-build-run.sh project:blog2
ssh project

Next weekend I’ll need to figure out how to get it working with elastic-beanstalk and then work on feature parity.