Devops

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by Python’s packaging ecosystem, you’re experiencing what the legendary XKCD comic #927 perfectly captured. The comic shows a familiar scenario: fourteen competing standards exist, someone declares “this is ridiculous, we need one universal standard,” and the final panel reveals there are now fifteen competing standards. For nearly two decades, Python packaging seemed trapped in exactly this recursive loop. We transitioned from distutils to setuptools, introduced pip for installation and virtualenv for isolation, experimented with pipenv for lock files, embraced poetry for deterministic resolution, and explored pdm for standards compliance. Each tool promised to unify workflows around package installation, dependency resolution, and distribution. Each contributed valuable concepts like deterministic builds and standardized metadata, yet often created distinct, incompatible silos. ...

This tutorial covers: Creating a simple Debian package using fpm Uploading it to a private APT repository on RepoForge.io Installing it from RepoForge in a Docker container Step 1 – Create a Debian package For this tutorial, we are going to make a simple hello world application. First, let’s create a working directory called hello, and add a subfolder called usr inside it, then another subfolder called bin inside that. Then, we’re going to add a file called hello inside of the bin folder. Your folder structure should look like this: ...

This tutorial shows how to automatically build and publish Python packages to a private repository using GitLab CI/CD. By the end, every tagged commit will trigger a pipeline that packages your code and uploads it to RepoForge.io. Prerequisites A RepoForge.io account (free trial works for this tutorial) A GitLab account A recent version of Python 3 Basic familiarity with git Step 1 — Create the folder structure Create an empty folder for your project and add a subfolder for your package code: ...

This tutorial shows you how to automatically publish Python, Docker, and NPM packages to RepoForge.io using the official GitHub Action. Step 1: Create a GitHub repository You can refer to the example here to see a valid repository setup that works with the options described below. Step 2: Get Your RepoForge.io Credentials Log into your RepoForge.io account and: Find your Hash ID on your account dashboard. (You will use this in package URLs.) ...