pypiprivate

pypiprivate is a command line tool for hosting a private PyPI-like package index or in other words, a manual python repository backed by a file based storage.

It's implemented in a way that the storage backends are pluggable. At present, only AWS S3 and local file system are supported but more implementations can be added in future.

The backend can be protected behind a HTTP reverse proxy (eg. Nginx) to allow secure private access to the packages.

How it works?

Update: We have published a blog post that explains the usage, approach and rationale in detail - Private Python Package Index with Zero Hassle.

At present pypiprivate comes with only one command to publish a package (more utilities for package search and discoverability are coming soon).

A publish operation involves,

1. Copying all the available package artifacts for a specific version under the ./dist directory to the storage backend
2. Creating the index on the same storage backend

The file structure created on the backend conforms to the "Simple Repository API" specification defined in PEP 503.

The files can now be served securely by a webserver eg. by setting up a Nginx reverse proxy.

It's important to note that although the name of the project is pypiprivate, it's upto you to ensure that the access to both, the storage and the index is really private. If you are using S3 and Nginx, for example, then

• package authors/owners will need read-write S3 creds to publish packages
• nginx will authenticate with S3 using read-only S3 creds and protect the files via HTTP Basic authentication
• package users will need HTTP Auth creds to install the packages using pip

Installation

pypi-private can be installed using pip as follows,

$ pip install pypiprivate

This will install pypiprivate with the additional dependency of boto3 for AWS S3 (compatible) backend.

In last master (to be released), Azure backend is also supported. If you wish to use that then for now you'll need to additionally install the azure-storage-blob package

$ pip install azure-storage-blob==12.2.0

After installation, a script pypi-private which will be available at PATH.

You may choose to install it in a virtualenv, but it's recommended to install it globally for all users (using sudo) so that it's less confusing to build and publish projects that need to use their own virtualenvs.

Configuration

pypiprivate requires it's own config file, the default location for which is ~/.pypi-private.cfg. This repo contains the example config file example.pypi-private.cfg, which can be simply copied to the home directory and renamed to .pypi-private.cfg.

The config file is NOT meant for specifying the auth credentials. Instead, they should be set as environment variables. This to ensure that creds are not stored in plain text.

Which env vars are to be set depends on the backend. More documentation about it can be found in the example config file.

AWS S3

For S3 there are 2 ways to specify the credentials

1. Setting PP_S3_* env vars explicitly

   • PP_S3_ACCESS_KEY: required
   • PP_S3_SECRET_KEY: required
   • PP_S3_SESSION_TOKEN: optional

2. Configuration methods supported by Boto3

   Since version: to be released

   This method is implicit but more convenient if you already use tools such as AWS-CLI. It'd also allow you to use profiles. However, note that only credentials will be picked up for the configured profile. The region and endpoint (if required) need to explicitly configured in the ~/.pypi-private.cfg file.

AZURE

Since version: to be released

• PP_AZURE_CONN_STR: (required) Connection string of the storage account

Usage

First create the builds,

$ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

Then to publish the built artifacts run,

$ pypi-private -v publish <pkg-name> <pkg-version>

For other options, run

$ pypi-private -h

Fetching packages published using pypiprivate

Run pip with the --extra-index-url option,

$ pip install mypackage --extra-index-url=https://<user>:<password>@my.private.pypi.com/simple

Or, add the extra-index-url to pip config file at ~/.pip/pip.conf as follows

[install]
extra-index-url = https://<user>:<password>@my.private.pypi.com/simple

And then simply run,

$ pip install mypackage

License

MIT (See LICENSE)