📅 2024-02-16 — Session: Deploy and Secure Flask App on Google App Engine
🕒 18:50–20:00
🏷️ Labels: Flask, Google App Engine, Oauth, Deployment, Security
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal:
The session aimed to deploy a Flask application to Google App Engine, ensuring secure OAuth integration and efficient user management.
Key Activities:
- Deployment: Followed a structured guide to deploy a Flask application on Google App Engine, which included project initialization and deployment commands.
- Security: Integrated OAuth credentials, configured redirect URIs, and managed sessions to secure the application. Addressed common errors like
redirect_uri_mismatch
andInsecureTransportError
. - Environment Management: Utilized
.env
files for managing environment variables securely, and troubleshooting issues such as the 502 Bad Gateway error. - User Management: Implemented a basic user model using a Python dictionary and discussed transitioning to a database for production use.
- OAuth Methods Comparison: Compared manual OAuth handling using Flask-Session and oauthlib with automated flow using Flask-OAuthlib.
Achievements:
- Successfully deployed the Flask application with OAuth integration on Google App Engine.
- Resolved key security issues and improved the handling of environment variables.
- Established a foundational user management system for further development.
Pending Tasks:
- Transition user management from an in-memory Python dictionary to a robust database solution for production.
- Further test the OAuth integration under different scenarios to ensure robustness.