from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base import yaml import os configyaml = os.environ.get("CONFIG_FILE") with open(configyaml, "rb") as config_file: config = yaml.load(config_file, Loader=yaml.SafeLoader) engine = create_engine(config['SERVICE_DB']) db_session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(bind=engine)) Base = declarative_base() Base.query = db_session.query_property() def init_db(): # import all modules here that might define models so that # they will be registered properly on the metadata. Otherwise # you will have to import them first before calling init_db() import models Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)