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devpi in Devstack

Several tasks in Devstack require pulling fresh copies of Python packages from PyPI. Depending on the application you are working on this can take anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. Additionally, those tasks could not be done while offline due to not being able to contact PyPI.

To help speed up those tasks and bring us close to being able to use Devstack entirely offline we have introduced a devpi PyPI cache container to Devstack. Currently it is only configured as a package cache for LMS and Studio, but the hope is to expand its use to the other Devstack applications and to move to a state where it comes pre-populated with the requirements of all Devstack applications.

In general the operation of devpi should be transparent. You may notice some significant speedup in tox testing and paver update_prereqs operations after the first run. Container storage should persist through make down and make dev.up operations.

The devpi web interface can be browsed from the host at: http://localhost:3141/

Documentation for devpi is at: https://www.devpi.net/

What is cached?

devpi will cache anything that LMS or Studio pull from PyPI via pip, including things from the various requirements files. It will not cache requirements given as URLs (ex. git+https style links) or local packages (ex. -e common/lib/calc). When these types of packages are encountered they bypass devpi.

How is it tied into other Devstack components?

devpi runs in a separate container started via the usual make operations and controlled through Docker Compose. Devstack components can use the devpi_consumer role in edx-configuration to add devpi configuration to their containers, and override configuration variables as necessary.

devpi_consumer creates a pip.config file in the configured location that tells pip to use devpi as the primary package repository. If devpi does not have a requested package it will call through to PyPI and cache the result if something is found.

Disabling devpi

To temporarily remove devpi caching from an edxapp container, start a shell (lms-shell or studio-shell) and move or delete /root/.pip/pip.conf. This will be undone on the next container restart unless the container state is persisted.

Monitoring devpi

You can monitor the devpi logs by running this command on the host: docker logs -f edx.devstack.devpi or looking at the output in Kitematic. You can also check the devpi server status by visiting: http://localhost:3141/+status