pipenv: deployment workflow

Question

I am thinking about switching from pip & virtualenv to pipenv. But after studying the documentation I am still at a loss on how the creators of pipenv structured the deploy

Answer 1

Just do this:

mkdir .venv
pipenv install

Explanation:

pipenv checks your project directory for a sub directory named .venv. If it finds it, then pipenv creates a local virtual environment (because then it sets automatically PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=true)

So now if you want you can either activate the virtual environment with:

source .venv/bin/activate

Or config you app.conf for gunicorn with something like this:

exec /path/to/.venv/bin/gunicorn myapp:app