Deploy streamlit app to aws with elastic beanstalk

Posted on Mar 30, 2023

Streamlit is a framework for creating data apps with python.

I’ve built a sandbox application for testing the amazon personalization engine. I use streamlit as a framework and python as a language.

After completing the job, I had to deploy to AWS. This is the way I followed.

My stack

Services

The first task is creating a docker image for streamlit application. This is the example;

FROM python:3.9-slim

WORKDIR /app

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    build-essential \
    curl \
    software-properties-common \
    git \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

COPY . /app

RUN /usr/local/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip
RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt

ARG AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
ARG AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
ARG AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-west-2

ENV AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
ENV AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
ENV AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

EXPOSE 8501

HEALTHCHECK CMD curl --fail http://localhost:8501/_stcore/health

ENTRYPOINT ["streamlit", "run", "app.py", "--server.port=8501", "--server.address=0.0.0.0"]

The only difference from the original streamlit docker image is AWS tokens. I used that tokens in my app, so I had to import them into the image.

Then I configured docker-compose.yaml file. I will use that file with elastic beanstalk.

version: "3.4"
services:
  streamlit:
    image: ACCOUNTID.dkr.ecr.REGION.amazonaws.com/IMAGENAME:TAG
    ports:
      - 80:8501

It will fetch the image from ECR with the image name. We will build our docker image and then push it to the ECR.

And the time is creating Makefile, which contains building the docker image, pushing to ECR, and updating docker-compose file shortcuts.

AWS_REGION ?= us-west-1 # its for pushing image to ecr
ECR_ENDPOINT ?= ""
IMAGE_NAME ?= "delirehberisandbox"
TS=$(shell date +'%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
TAG=${IMAGE_NAME}:v${TS}

deploy: ## Rebuild docker image with a new tag and push to ECR
	docker build --build-arg AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID} --build-arg AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY} --build-arg AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION} -t ${TAG} .
	aws ecr get-login-password --region ${AWS_REGION} | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin ${ECR_ENDPOINT}
	docker tag ${TAG} ${ECR_ENDPOINT}/${TAG}
	docker push ${ECR_ENDPOINT}/${TAG}
	$(shell sed -i 's/\(^ *image: *\).*/\1${ECR_ENDPOINT}\/${TAG}/' docker-compose.yaml)
	git add docker-compose.yaml
	git commit -m "autocommit: image version updated"
	eb deploy
.PHONY: rebuild


help: ## Show this help
	@echo ${TAG}
	@echo "\nSpecify a command. The choices are:\n"
	@grep -E '^[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "  \033[0;36m%-12s\033[m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
	@echo ""

.PHONY: help

We can use the make deploy command after that. But wait, we didn’t ready yet.

Let’s go to the AWS console with a web browser and follow these steps;

Open the Elastic Container Registry -> Repositories -> Create a new repository page and give the name to the repository. It must be the same IMAGE_NAME variable inside Makefile. For me, its delirehberisandbox
Open the Elastic Beanstalk -> Environments page and click Create new environment button. Select Web Server Environment and click Next. Give an application name, i gave delirehberi as application name. On the platform section, choose Managed Platform and choose Docker as the platform. Then click the Create Environment button. It will start to create environment with example code.
Open the IAM->Roles page and give AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly permission to aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role and aws-elasticbeanstalk-service-role roles.

And we are closing the final steps. You have to configure AWS credentials in your local. I am using direnv to handle environment variables by folder. Create a .envrc file in the project root.

dotenv .env

Then create a .env file and fill in the credentials;

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=CHANGE
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=CHANGE
AWS_REGION=us-west-2
ECR_ENDPOINT=ACCOUNTID.dkr.ecr.REGION.amazonaws.com
IMAGE_NAME=delirehberi

And allow to export with direnv allow

So, now we will init elasticbeanstalk in root directory. Just run eb init -p docker YOUR_APPLICATION_NAME

It will create a config.yaml file inside .elasticbeanstalk folder like this.

branch-defaults:
  master:
    environment: Delirehberisandbox-env
    group_suffix: null
global:
  application_name: delirehberi
  branch: master
  default_ec2_keyname: null
  default_platform: Docker
  default_region: us-east-2
  include_git_submodules: true
  instance_profile: null
  platform_name: null
  platform_version: null
  profile: null
  repository: null
  sc: git
  workspace_type: Application

You can configure that file for your needs.

Finally, we can run make deploy command. It will build an image, then push it to ecr, then update the docker-compose file, and then it will add changes to git history and will deploy to your elasticbeanstalk environment.