I am serving a flask app with docker but the docker logs command shows that the app is running on a development server. I want to serve this app with waitress.
The project is structured like this below. A docker-compose.yml file to build the image, expose the port and run the manage.py file
docker-compose.yml
web:
build: .
image: web
container_name: web
ports:
- 8080:5000
command: python manage.py run -h 0.0.0.0
manage.py file imports the create_app and provides it into FLaskGroup
from flask.cli import FlaskGroup
from project.server import create_app
app = create_app()
cli = FlaskGroup(create_app=create_app)
if __name__ == "__main__":
cli()
project/server/__init__.py file imports the main_blueprint and registers it.
from project.server.main.views import main_blueprint
from flask import Flask
import os
def create_app(script_info=None):
app = Flask(
__name__,
template_folder="../client/templates",
static_folder="../client/static",
)
app_settings = os.getenv("APP_SETTINGS")
app.config.from_object(app_settings)
app.register_blueprint(main_blueprint)
app.shell_context_processor({"app": app})
return app
project/server/main/views.py
from flask import render_template, Blueprint, jsonify, request
main_blueprint = Blueprint("main", __name__,)
@main_blueprint.route("/", methods=["GET"])
def home():
return render_template("pages/home.html")
@main_blueprint.route("/test", methods=["GET"])
def parse():
return jsonify({"result": "test"}), 202
How can I modify the existing code to serve the flask app with waitress? Thank you.
I got it running by changing the docker-compose.yml file:
command
python manage.py run -h 0.0.0.0 to waitress-serve --call "project.server:create_app"
port
8080:5000 to 8080:8080
docker-compose.yml file looks like below now:
web:
build: .
image: web
container_name: web
ports:
- 8080:8080
command: waitress-serve --call "project.server:create_app"