A lightweight, cloud-native photo gallery application built with Python Flask and Azure Blob Storage. This application provides a simple yet powerful way to store, manage, and display your photo collection with efficient thumbnail generation for optimal performance.

• Cloud Storage: Leverages Azure Blob Storage (with local Azurite emulation for development)
• Thumbnail Generation: Automatically creates optimized thumbnails for faster gallery browsing
• Responsive Design: Mobile-friendly interface that works across all devices
• Easy Deployment: Designed for simple deployment to Azure App Service
• Developer Friendly: Well-documented code with Google-style docstrings

Perfect for personal photo collections, portfolios, or small business galleries without the overhead of a complex content management system. Ideal for developers looking for a lightweight starting point to build upon.

• Python 3.9 or higher
• Pip package manager
• Azurite storage emulator (for local development)
• Azure account (for production deployment)

pip install flask azure-storage-blob python-dotenv pillow

For production deployment, you'll also need to set:

• AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING or
• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME and AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY

1. Clone this repository
2. Copy the .env.template file to .env and update as needed
3. Start Azurite for local storage emulation
4. Run flask run to start the development server