Flask app reading from read replica and displaying information

[neilmb]

Feature/what we're after

Our flask app can talk to the read-replica of our datagov-harvester-db and get some information from that database (maybe just a count of something?) and put it onto a templated page.

Anticipated/hypothesized benefits

• Proves out our infrastructure
• Proves out our dataflow onto the page

Measurements/metrics

• Data on the page changes as the harvester database changes

References/background

• Probably need to use the Flask app's database session to make the connection and the .profile file needs to read the replica information to configure the credentials.
• Consider starting a database/interface.py file to keep Flask routing separate from database access methods.

[cmhedrickREI]

Connection to DB demonstrated by: GSA/datagov-catalog#4

[tdlowden]

@cmhedrickREI can we close this?

[cmhedrickREI]

@tdlowden Yeah we can!