While working with complex and multi-module Python projects it quickly becomes crucial to share libraries across different components, enable developers to easily install those libraries into their local development environment, and use them in continuous integration tools. A private PyPi repository is a good solution to this problem since it allows installing internal libraries anywhere just by using regular pip install commands while keeping full control over the Python packages.

If your application is running on the cloud, you likely want to deploy your PyPi server within your infrastructure. In this post, I focus on the AWS cloud and show how to deploy a password-protected PyPi server on a small EC2 instance within an existing VPC. As a server, I am going to use a minimal PyPi server implementation that is easy to set up, not demanding in terms of resources, and, most importantly, still actively maintained on GitHub. The cloud infrastructure is built using Terraform, a great tool that has become the de-facto standard for infrastructure-as-a-code (IaaC) provisioning. Thanks to Terraform, running your own PyPi repository on AWS can be done in less than a minute. But now, let’s dive in.

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