Flask App on Amazon EKS

This project demonstrates how to containerize a simple Flask application and deploy it on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).

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🚀 Quick Start Demo

This project walks you through:

• Creating a Docker image for a Flask app
• Deploying it to a Kubernetes cluster hosted on EKS
• Accessing it through a LoadBalancer or Ingress

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🧭 Table of Contents

• Flask App on Amazon EKS
• Quick Start Demo
• Table of Contents
• Installation
• Usage
• Development
• Contribute
• License

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⚙️ Installation

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Make sure you have Docker, AWS CLI, kubectl, eksctl, and Helm installed.

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/your-username/zero-to-production.git
cd zero-to-production

2. Build the Docker image

docker build -t flask-app:latest .

3. Push to ECR (Optional)

Follow AWS ECR instructions.

4. Create EKS Cluster

eksctl create cluster --name flask-cluster --region us-west-2 --nodes 2

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📦 Usage

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Deploy Flask App

kubectl apply -f k8s/deployment.yaml
kubectl apply -f k8s/service.yaml

Check External IP

kubectl get svc flask-service

Access the app using the external IP in your browser.

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🛠️ Development

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Want to run it locally?

# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run the Flask app
python app.py

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🤝 Contribute

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Want to contribute? Awesome! Open a pull request or issue. Contributions and suggestions are always welcome.

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.