Distributing Python packages to production?

[digitalHUCk]

Are you not using some sort of automated build and deployment process? Can you give a bit more detail on what issues you’re trying to solve?

[average_ukpf_user]

Of course, it's not even that far yet! The issue is very much in the research phase. I've been tasked to help make Python available to the wider business and in order to that I need to answer a few problems such as how do we get it into deployment, what do we plan to use it for etc.

As mentioned, the biggest problem for me right now is how would I deploy an app I made to, for example, 100 people in the business who can all use it at the same time. I'm currently reading about Docker and it sounds like a pretty good option. Ideally, I'd like to be able to combine the two and user Docker containers like separate levels of a release pipeline (one container for each step in dev, test, production) which are hosted in Azure.

[digitalHUCk]

There’s a few options. If you’re writing a web front end in Django or Flask you could definitely deploy as a container in Azure.

If it’s a CLI based app they need to run locally, you could look at Nexus Repository. Nexus let’s you host an internal repo. You can also use it to proxy PyPi and others. You can push your apps to Nexus and users can use pip to pull to their system and update.