Creating your own private index

Sometimes, you'll need to have your own private index, so you can serve your own packages without opening them to the full internet, for internal packages that need to be used across the company, but where it doesn't make sense to upload them to the public PyPI.

You can create your own private index that can be used to share those packages and install them by calling to that index.

To serve the packages, we need to run a PyPI server locally. There are several options in terms of available servers that can be used, but an easy option is pypiserver (https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver).

pypiserver can be installed in several ways; we will see how to run it locally, but to serve it correctly, you'll need to install it in a way that's available in your network. Check the documentation to see several options, but a good option is to use the official Docker image available.

To run pypiserver, first, install...