Ask HN: How do you manage private packages within Python projects

2 points by jquery_dev 4 years ago | 2 comments

I'm trying to convert shared pieces of code to a library, which could be re-used within our codebases (Hosted in Azure DevOps).

However, from looking into it, there is no way to share such libraries without incurring massive costs or sacrificing ease of use.

For example, You can use azure artefacts to pull python libraries, however, you now have to make sure all developers switch to using the new feed, as well as you're forced into adding upstream of PyPI, which then leads to additional costs due to cached packages.

Another approach is to pull packages via ssh, but I assume that creates another mess with access permissions to said repositories as well.

How do you choose to deal with such problems in your environments?

catfishx 4 years ago |

Whats the problem with setting the requirements to a private git repository using ssh?

jquery_dev 4 years ago | |

I thought it would cause issues when running CI/CD, since you're having to give separate access to the repositories, which might be in different Azure DevOps projects.