[ilyt]

I outright look for alternatives for something when the search comes with something written in python; the well-accepted strategy for deploying Python seems to be "abandon all hope of deploying it yourself in a way where updating is easy and hope docker container someone did that dealt with this mess will be enough.

[Spivak]

Huh? What stack? Python and Ruby take the same (I think better) approach of being written web server agnostic which requires you do some packaging work with your preferred wsgi/asgi server but after that it’s like everything else. In your container, copy all your shit over, install deps, pass envs to talk to external services like postgres/redis, run migrations, run server. Updates are just build the container again with the new version and run it.

I’m too lazy for that so in my own stuff I embed the web server in the project itself and start it programmatically (same with the migrations) so there’s less setup.

If the issue is the Docker container then that’s not really much to do with Python but that pretty much all software is written with that deployment strategy in mind. Those single file no libc statically compiled binaries are that way to run on a from scratch container.

[ziml77]

I appreciate the tools that release a self-contained executable using something like PyInstaller. I don't have to worry about dependency issues and it runs without needing a whole Docker container.