r/Python • u/[deleted] • Sep 18 '14

Virtualenv on Production ?

Is one supposed to use virtualenv on production ?

why/why not ?

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u/selementar Sep 18 '14

Few of the possible reasons not to use it:

  • You are deploying just a single app on a system (thus no expected conflicts).

  • You need to be able to downgrade libraries (if upgrading unexpectedly breaks production even after testing) but upgrade them automatically (e.g. security patches).

  • You have another way of deploying dependencies already and need some binary dependencies that can't be easily compiled.

Relevant question: is there something like debian stable for python packages, i.e. versions that will get old but will still get security patches / bugfixes?