How do I create a stable Django/Python template on EC2?

Question

My current Django template on EC2 is using a number of easy-install packages always because there is no matching yum package. Unfortunately, easy-install has a disconcertingly high failure rate. Every few weeks a new easy-install package fails to install on instance launch.

Currently it is pyOpenSSL (which does not have a yum for Python 2.6)

How are other Django/Python admins handling this on EC2? Do you have all the tarballs as attachements? That seems to be where I am getting to ...

Answer 1

You can pinpoint a working configuration and force easy_install to install the exact same versions of the packages each time with the following command:

easy_install $package==$version

Also, you could consider pip, because it provides some benefits over easy_install and seems to be the widely accepted solution in the Python community lately. You can install it with the following command:

easy_install pip

And then install packages with:

pip install $package==$version