We have now understood the web framework and with relevant examples, the usage of APIs. This includes how to create an API, access APIs, and even work with authentication on APIs. Using this knowledge, we will now be able to develop web based tools for end users. The IIS functionality has also been introduced, which helps developers to customize various web-based settings such as authentications, authorizations, and creating websites.

Additionally, with a fully functional example of a given scenario, readers can quickly build web-based Python scripts, which remove the need for any end user installations of Python and customized libraries. This makes support and bug fixing much easier, owing to having a single machine to fix. A fix done on the server will ensure that all end users will now be using the fixed or enhanced functions of the script, rather than downloading a local copy on their machines to get the fixed or enhanced script.

In the next chapter, we will introduce the use of Ansible, which is a popular open source automation platform.