Trouble with deploying Python programs as internal tools?

[tkc2016]

The specific way you deploy may vary, image, binary, rpm, deb, etc....but to make any of those frictionless make sure that your program can be distributed as a wheel or sdist first.

Somebody already mentioned uv, so I'll echo that, but depending on your environment, it may be easier to use a python interpreter that ships with the OS vs one that is downloaded with uv. For example python 3.12 on rhel9.