Quick Example Deploying Python Flask App From Github To AWS App Runner

Here's an uber basic demo of deploying an API (flask app) via AWS App Runner.

Getting the endpoint up with TLS certs & DNS & stuff without having to configure those things manually is very cool. And to Will Nowak's comment the other day, this is a relevant example to me of the cloud being more than just servers we don't own.

But still, you're *probably* not going to do anything like this for a real deployment - at least for my DS/ML friends - so this whole platform-as-a-service/function-as-a-service can feel a bit toy-ish given that you're likely checking code into source control, building docker images, or changing font sizes in your PPT deck (kidding...!)

That's where these tools (and I'm including GCP, Azure, and the other clouds as well) have really improved. This is my first exposure to App Runner, and I didn't realize you could point directly to a github repository and it would take care of the rest (hence the demo). I watched a Noah Gift example of this that was barely 3 mins long and I just assumed there had to be more to it. Nope. This is really straightforward.

I just wish the names weren't so confusing. Although I guess App Runner is easier to grok than Elastic Beanstalk, so we're making progress and I shouldn't complain. But I still will.