Pypi

A common problem with Python development for large-scale teams is sharing internal libraries. At Vendasta we’ve been solving this problem using a private PyPI installation running on Google App Engine with Python eggs and wheels being served by Google Cloud Storage. Today, we are announcing the open source version of this tool — CloudPyPI. CloudPyPI is a modification of pypiserver for running on Google App Engine. We’ve also introduced a simple user management system to allow authenticated access to your Python packages. Together, we’ve found this to be a robust tool for distributing private Python libraries internally. If this is a problem you’ve been trying to solve, give CloudPyPI a try — contributions and feature requests are always welcome. ...

At Vendasta we’ve been slowly adopting pypi and pip for our internal code libraries and the time has come to deploy our own private pypi server. After evaluating a few options I settled on the simplistic pypiserver – a barebones implementation of the simple HTTP API to pypi. The deployment uses nginx as a front-end to pypiserver. pypiserver itself is ran and monitored using supervisord. I created a bash script that creates a user and group to run pypiserver and installs and runs nginx, supervisord and pypiserver. I’ve been running this bash script through Vagrant to deploy a custom pypiserver for private use. I wanted to save this code for posterity and hopefully help someone else working on the same task. ...