Packaging, Deployment and DevOps for Python

Shipping Python software: packaging, continuous integration, containers, configuration, deployment and monitoring.

PYTH-260 Year 2 3 credits 12 lessons · 4 h 39 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Python Programming

This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.

What you'll learn

Explain what changes when a script becomes a product, and apply reproducibility and automation to remove manual, undocumented steps.
Lay out a Python project with the src layout and describe it completely in pyproject.toml, including extras, dependency groups and entry points.
Build sdists and wheels, read wheel filename tags, and publish packages safely to public or private indexes.
Choose version constraints for libraries and applications, generate hashed lock files, and keep dependencies current and audited.
Write a continuous integration workflow with a test matrix, ordered jobs, caching and required status checks.
Package an application as a small, secure container image with a multi-stage Dockerfile, and run it with Docker Compose.
Load typed configuration from the environment with clear precedence, and store, inject, rotate and scan for secrets correctly.
Deploy a web application behind a production server and load balancer, with health checks, safe migrations and graceful shutdown.
Choose a cloud hosting model, describe infrastructure as code, and release with blue-green or canary deployments and practiced rollbacks.
Instrument an application with structured logs, metrics, percentiles, traces and SLO-based alerts.
Version releases with semantic versioning, pre-releases and deprecation, and generate changelogs and tags from conventional commits.
Assemble and operate a complete deployment pipeline from commit to production, with release checks, smoke tests and a runbook.

12 lessons · 4 h 39 min total · final exam

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Shipping Python software: packaging, continuous integration, containers, configuration, deployment and monitoring.

Part of the Information Technology stream, typically taken in year 2.