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We don’t use containers with a pretty large deployment. (1k or so bare metal servers)

If you statically link all your binaries then your deployment system can be rsync a directory.

The only dependency is that the Linux kernel is new enough. Other than that the packages we deploy will run on literally any setup.

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what languages do you use in this way? this sounds a lot easier and more natural for C than python

C++ for the most part.

I don’t use python much but I don’t know why it wouldn’t be possible build it statically and package your entire dependency set into a single directory.

It's certainly possible in python, and there's a handful of tools/approaches, but the last one I used, PEX, left me scarred. It's certainly a much less common or simple approach then copying a venv into a docker container.

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