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Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

By : Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar
Book Image

Building Serverless Python Web Services with Zappa

By: Abdulwahid Abdulhaque Barguzar

Overview of this book

Serverless applications are becoming very popular these days, not just because they save developers the trouble of managing the servers, but also because they provide several other benefits such as cutting heavy costs and improving the overall performance of the application. This book will help you build serverless applications in a quick and efficient way. We begin with an introduction to AWS and the API gateway, the environment for serverless development, and Zappa. We then look at building, testing, and deploying apps in AWS with three different frameworks--Flask, Django, and Pyramid. Setting up a custom domain along with SSL certificates and configuring them with Zappa is also covered. A few advanced Zappa settings are also covered along with securing Zappa with AWS VPC. By the end of the book you will have mastered using three frameworks to build robust and cost-efficient serverless apps in Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Custom Domain with SSL

In this chapter, we are going to configure a custom domain for the quote application developed in the previous chapter. Configuring custom domains is an essential part of moving the application to the production environment because of its serverless nature. This process involves several operations and is different from traditional configuration with Apache or NGINX. We will look at the quote application that is already deployed in the serverless infrastructure. 

Topics we will cover in this chapter include:

  • Configuring the custom domain with AWS Route53
  • Generating SSL certificates using the Amazon Certificate Manager
  • Integrating the custom domain using Zappa