Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Packaging and deploying the service

Since the hms_Gateway and hms_core projects each have their own setup.py file, the packaging and deployment process doesn't need to be any more complicated than doing the following:

• Executing each setup.py to generate the installable package
• Moving those package files to the server that is going to run the Gateway service
• Installing them with the following code:
  • pip install HMS-Core-0.1.dev0.tar.gz
  • pip install HMS-Gateway-0.1.dev0.tar.gz
• Creating, for new installations, the configuration file at the necessary location

The configuration needed to allow the Gateway daemon to start up automatically on system boot and shutdown with a system shutdown will vary based on the OS of the target machine (more ...