Application Deployment

Page Status:Incomplete Last Reviewed:2014-07-24

Contents

• Application Deployment
  • Overview
    • Supporting multiple hardware platforms
  • OS Packaging & Installers
  • Application Bundles
  • Configuration Management

Overview

Supporting multiple hardware platforms

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Meaning: x86, x64, ARM, others?

For Python-only distributions, it *should* be straightforward to deploy on all
platforms where Python can run.

For distributions with binary extensions, deployment is major headache.  Not only
must the extensions be built on all the combinations of operating system and
hardware platform, but they must also be tested, preferably on continuous
integration platforms.  The issues are similar to the "multiple python
versions" section above, not sure whether this should be a separate section.
Even on Windows x64, both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Python enjoy
significant usage.

OS Packaging & Installers

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- Building rpm/debs for projects
- Building rpms/debs for whole virtualenvs
- Building Windows installers for Python projects
- Building Mac OS X installers for Python projects

Application Bundles

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- py2exe/py2app/PEX
- wheels kinda/sorta

Configuration Management

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puppet
salt
chef
ansible
fabric