pipenv: deployment workflow

Question

I am thinking about switching from pip & virtualenv to pipenv. But after studying the documentation I am still at a loss on how the creators of pipenv structured the deploy

Answer 1

I think pipenv is very good for managing dependencies but is too slow, cumbersome and still a bit unstable for using it for automatic deployments.

Instead I use virtualenv (or virtualenvwrapper) and pip on the target machine.

• On my build/development machine I create a requirements.txt compatible text file using pipenv lock -r:

    $ pipenv lock -r > deploy-requirements.txt
  

• While deploying, inside a virtualenv I run:

    $ pip install -r deploy-requirements.txt