deployment - Pip , npm on offline servers

Question

If you are developing Python web services for local network (servers is totally offline from the web) and the only way to add files to the server is through Flash drivers so using pip for Python packages or npm for node packages is such a headache and gets in a lot of dependencies issues and build issues .. so what is the proper way of dealing with such environment so development and deployment would be easier?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65541118/pip-npm-on-offline-servers

Answer 1

there are 2 approaches which you can take:

1. download all your dependencies locally and ship them to the remote server. this includes all the pip and npm packages. pay attention to the python odejsoperating system versions and architecture.

2. use docker to create an image, which packs everything. then ship the image to the remote server and finally spin-up a container based on that image.