Connect devpi to your docker container

Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

You’re running pip install, buildout or your automated tests within a docker container and after running it multiple times you’ve become tired of waiting for it to finally complete? Then it’s time to connect a devpi server.

Docker installation required

Docker must be installed on your system.

$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version: 19.03.5
 API version: 1.40
 Go version: go1.12.12
 Git commit: 633a0ea
 Built: Wed Nov 13 07:22:34 2019
 OS/Arch: darwin/amd64
 Experimental: false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
 Version: 19.03.5
 API version: 1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
 Go version: go1.12.12
 Git commit: 633a0ea
 Built: Wed Nov 13 07:29:19 2019
 OS/Arch: linux/amd64
 Experimental: false
 containerd:
 Version: v1.2.10
 GitCommit: b34a5c8af56e510852c35414db4c1f4fa6172339
 runc:
 Version: 1.0.0-rc8+dev
 GitCommit: 3e425f80a8c931f88e6d94a8c831b9d5aa481657
 docker-init:
 Version: 0.18.0
 GitCommit: fec3683

You’ll need a working directory where docker-compose.yml file and certificates are stored in, so please create a folder my-devpi as shown below:

Howto use buildout version pins?

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

When using Plone with buildout you want to be able to reproduce your environment with the same set of eggs, even if there were some new releases in between.

buildout 2.x

For buildout 2.x they implemented a lot of improvements for pinning versions.

allow-picked-versions allow buildout to download pinned packages only. Not pinned but required packages will raise an Exception.
show-picked-versions shows a summary of picked versions after your first buildout run. You can copy'n'paste this into a versions.cfg file.

buildout 1.x

Manually

Without pinning your eggs it will be impossible to reproduce the deployed buildout configuration in future. Use a this buildout extension for future projects to avoid this pitfall:

Buildout on widerin

Connect devpi to your docker container

Howto use buildout version pins?

buildout 2.x

buildout 1.x

Manually