For my assets web app, written in Flask (Python) I have separated the app and the database into separate instances. This allows me to update the app and its dependencies without impacting the database and its dependencies, or vice-versa. The database could be one of many as I’m using SQLAlchemy to handle the connectivity between … Continue reading Flask and SQLAlchemy: Connecting To MySQL (Python / Notes)
In this blog post I take my Flask (Python) web application and deployment to Microsoft Azure, and instead of doing it manually I do it via a CI/CD. I’ve previously discussed Continuous Integration (CI) in blog posts around CI, GitHub actions and recently Code Coverage. The CD of CI/CD can stand for Continuous Deployment or … Continue reading Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery – The CD of CI/CD (GitHub / Python / DevOps)
Testing is important, especially in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) environments, as it gives some reassurance that a code commit has not broken anything. But what happens if you are unsure how much of your project is covered by tests? Code Coverage Code coverage monitors tests as they run and checks which parts of … Continue reading Code Coverage (Python / DevOps)
A blog post looking at using Python to create or read QR Codes.
The Software Engineering & Agile module of my degree apprenticeship is coming to a close. With that in mind I think I can now share the coding I’ve done for the assignment especially as I needed to store it in a public repository (it’s on my GitHub at https://github.com/geektechdude/qa-se-webapp ) as part of the submissions … Continue reading An Asset WebApp (Flask / Python)
Continuing on with the Software Engineering & Agile module of my degree, I need to be able to show my Flask web application running. After picking a cloud platform (in this case Azure) I git cloned my repository to the Linux Ubuntu instance that will be running it and realised that I’ve not included a … Continue reading Running Flask As A Linux Service (Linux / Python)
In this blog post I will be discussing Continuous Integration (CI) with GitHub Actions. Readers of previous blog entries may remember that I’ve tackled Continuous Integration (CI) with GitLab previously (see: https://geektechstuff.com/2021/04/05/python-unit-test-and-some-ci-via-gitlab-python/ ) and that last autumn (2021) I got into more testing (see: https://geektechstuff.com/2021/10/06/personal-update-django-and-mvc-mtv/ ). Thankfully both have helped as the current module of my degree apprenticeship is … Continue reading Using GitHub Actions To Add Continuous Integration (CI) To A Project (GitHub / Python)
Less of blog post and more of a reminder to myself. When using Flask and Unit Testing with Python, if either of the below errors occur (or something similar): Then it may be because the setUp function of the test class has not set up correctly. Spent some time going round in circles until I … Continue reading AttributeError: ‘FlaskClientTestCase’ object has no attribute ‘app_context’ – Unit Testing (Python)
With my Data Analytics learnings continuing at a fair pace I need to be able to turn data into something nice (e.g., plot it onto charts). I could use Power BI or R , but as regular readers may know my preference for most tasks is Python. Python offers several libraries that are great for … Continue reading Jupyter Notebook via Docker on Raspberry Pi (Python, Raspberry Pi)
I previously wrote about using some Python to stop AWS EC2 instances that had the tag “office_hours” and indicated that this could be automatically run via AWS Lambda. This blog post is a brief follow up with some notes on creating the Lambda function, using the Python from the previous blog post. Using AWS Lambda … Continue reading AWS Lambda – Stop Instances Outside Office Hours (Python / AWS)
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