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example_pypi_package
Example PyPI (Python Package Index) package set up with automated tests and publishing using GitHub Actions CI/CD, primarily for GitHub + VS Code (Windows / Mac / Linux) users
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There are cases where you want the flexibility of installing a python package via pip without having it available to the open public. This article will focus on using devpi to provide a self-hosted pip compatible python package server. Ubuntu will be used for the OS as it's a fairly common Linux distribution and easily available on Windows Linux Subsystem.
Twine is also an option if you'd rather stick with the traditional PyPi upload system. It does require an additional duplication of the keyring entry and a configuration file addition as well. First I'll create a $HOME\.pypirc file (make sure this is Powershell so $HOME expands properly) with the following contents:
Now it's time to do the actual uploading part, as that's why most would want a private PyPi index right? To start out I'll clone tomchen's example PyPi repo template:
As you can see there are several methods of running devpi server including cron, launchd (OSX service), nginx, Windows service, and supervisord. It also has a systemd service file which we can use to manage the service easily as Ubuntu uses it for primary service management. First off though we're going to need a proxy script to ensure that devpi is running in the virtual environment: