What are solutions people use to distribute their

pex

files? Other than bundling

.pex

files in OS specific packaging solutions (e.g. Homebrew, debs, RPMs, etc) is there any existing tooling for deploying a

pex

file onto a machine? I'm thinking something like

pip

or

maven

.

One of the core features of PEX files is that they are single files. The intention here is that deployment is trivial. You can just copy the PEX file where it needs to go whether that be into a docker image, scp'd to a host or curled down.

That is why we like them so much.

Not that I'm aware of. Folks I know of tend to use existing tools like Dockerfile COPY (image), puppet (host) and curl (Mesos / Aurora).

We COPY them into our docker image, but we do this as the very last step in the build, which means that our different images share all layers except the last, which keeps builds nice and quick.

Cool. Thank you. We are not using docker. We will probably build something using

curl

. Thank you!