Cloud PyPI - Mirroring PyPI in the cloud

Idea

We are setting up a PyPI mirror of the static content of PyPI in Amazon CloudFront.

Proposal

• CloudPyPI/Proposal

The proposal was accepted by the PSF in their December 2010 board meeting.

Funding was limited to an initial USD 500 for Amazon costs to see whether the project would succeed.

Resources

• Developer Intro to the PyPI code

• PyPI RPC interface (which we likely won't use, but gives an idea of how the meta data is stored)

• PyPI Code

• Web GUI code

Team

Implementation:

• Marc-André Lemburg

• Grig Gheorghiu
• Neil Schemenauer

Helping with the PyPI code:

• Richard Jones
• Martin von Löwis

Mailing List

• cloud-pypi@lists.egenix.com (private to the project team)

Project Server

For development, we are using an Amazon EC2 VM:

• cloud-pypi.getpython.org

Note that the development server may be stopped at times, if not currently used.

The server has a snapshot of the PyPI installation as-of 2011-01-15.