Installing Zappa is a straightforward task, but before we move ahead, we need to configure the prerequisites. Make sure you have Python 2.7 or Python 3.6 and have a valid AWS account. Now, you need to configure the AWS credentials on your machine with help awscli
:
$ pip install awscli
Configure the AWS credentials using the aws configure
command, as shown in the following screenshot:
The configuration for AWS credentials requires that you have an AWS Access Key ID
, AWS Secret Access Key
, Default region name
, and a Default output format
.
You can get AWS credential information from your My Security Credentials
page, as shown in the following screenshot:
Once you've configured your AWS credentials, we can move ahead with Zappa's installation.
Zappa must be installed in a virtual environment. It's strongly recommended that you create a virtual environment and activate it before installing Zappa. I prefer to use the virtualenv
tool. There are other tools available to...