A package manager automates retrieving, installing, updating, and managing dependencies for reusable software packages. In infrastructure configuration, it downloads versioned modules from remote repositories before they are imported. section 5.1.2
A repository-based workflow uses the package manager to:
- Declare each module as a library requirement with a repository URL and specific tag. section 5.1.2
- Download modules before configuration code imports them, replacing local-path dependencies. section 5.1.2
- Reuse consistent modules across development and production environments, reducing configuration drift. section 5.1.2
Listing 5.2 Python requirements.txt references module repositories
-e git+https://github.com/joatmon08/gcp-tags-module.git@1.0.0#egg=tags #1 -e git+https://github.com/joatmon08/gcp-network-module.git@1.0.0#egg=network #2 -e git+https://github.com/joatmon08/gcp-server-module.git@0.0.1#egg=server #2 -e git+https://github.com/joatmon08/gcp-database-module.git@1.0.0#egg=database #2
Shows requirements.txt entries that pin infrastructure modules to tagged repository versions. section 5.1.2
Installing repository modules
Running pip install -r requirements.txt obtains the tagged tags, network, server, and database modules, making them available for infrastructure imports. section 5.1.2
