Let's keep this as short as possible.

APP UPDATES:

Given that this is a flask app we will need to leverage a runner or manager. In this case we are using gunicorn, because I was using flask-scripts this step took extra time to properly debug and get it running.

Logging, so that in production we can monitor the state of the application.

VM:

Debian 8.0 1 CPU & 3.75GB of RAM

• Update Packages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

• Install App Related Packages sudo apt-get install: -build-essential -supervisor -python -python-dev -python-pip -libffi-dev -nginx -npm

• Configure Nginx Remove default # rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default Create new config # nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/the-flask-org Create Symbolic link to enabled configln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/the-flask-org /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ Check to see if config is validnginx -t Reload Nginx (Debian) /etc/init.d/nginx reload

• Navigate to root folder & clone GIT Repo

  git clone https://github.com/googler4/the_organizer_flask.git

• App / Execution Create user to run app # useradd -m -d /home/app app Create Venv # virtualenv venv Install Dependencies # pip install -r requirements.txt Change Owner # chown -R app:app /opt/app Run Gunicorn: gunicorn manage:app --bind 0.0.0.0:5000 autostart=true autorestart=true user=pythonapp

Startup script:

Every time the machine restarts, we install required programs, pull new code from repo, and re-install dependencies.

Python: Install, setup and update Python & PIP. Nginx: Install, create config and create symbolic link, and remove default config. Create user: From which we will run our flask app and only our flask app. Setup and Run via gunicorn run by supervisor.

Firewall:

Updated the roles, added the custom SSH port 9200