Tag Archives: remote interpreters

Running Flask with an SSH Remote Python Interpreter

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Ernst Haagsman

One common cause of bugs in many applications is that development and production environments differ. Although in most cases it’s not possible to provide an exact copy of the production environment for development, pursuing dev-prod parity is a worthwhile cause. … Continue reading →

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Building an API using Flask-RESTful, and using the PyCharm HTTP Client

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Ernst Haagsman

In the previous blog post in this series, I created a Vagrant VM and provisioned it with Ansible for Python development. In this part, we’ll have a look at a larger application which is configured in the same way. In … Continue reading →

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Developing in a VM with Vagrant and Ansible

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Ernst Haagsman

One of the things that could make developing cloud applications hard, would be differences between the dev environment and the production environment. This is why one of the factors of the twelve factor app is maintaining dev-prod parity. Today we’ll … Continue reading →

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SSH Agent: Simplify SSH keys

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Ernst Haagsman

Security is important, and that’s why we all use key pairs when authenticating to our servers. And as is best practice, we also protect our private key with a passphrase, don’t we? Ideally the passphrase is long and complicated, and … Continue reading →

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Using Docker Compose on Windows in PyCharm

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Ernst Haagsman

By popular demand, PyCharm 2017.2 Professional Edition expands its Docker Compose support to those of you who run Windows. Let’s take a look and see how this works! In our last Docker Compose post, we created a guest book in … Continue reading →

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Remote Development on Raspberry Pi: Analyzing Ping Times (Part 2)

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Ernst Haagsman

Last week we created a script that records ping times on a regular basis. We developed the script remotely on a Raspberry Pi, and then added it to Cron to make sure that times are recorded every 5 minutes into … Continue reading →

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