PRPropolice·May 5, 2026
Wanted to try PyInfra for a long while but this is a deal breaker:
https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/issues/1242
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🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.
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🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
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33 sourcesThe amount of repetition of @override seems unpythonic to me, but maybe that's python being unpythonic.
https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/blob/3.x/src/pyinfra/...
In PyInfra 3.8.0Pyinfra: Turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers
12 points · Open discussionThis really hits home, since I’m working on trying to achieve similar spread of maintainership on pyinfra[1] (which I note is much less popular than Caddy). But all the same issues and out of control GH notifications. Hope this goes well, Caddy is awesome software!
[1] https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra
In Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainershipor a middle path solution like https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra
In ShefI’m using PyInfra [1] these days (no affiliation, just think it’s cool).
It’s like Ansible, but you write Python directly instead of a YAML DSL. Code reuse is as simple as writing modules, importing them, and calling whatever functions you’ve written in normal Python.
I find it almost as easy as writing a shell script, but with most of the advantages of Ansible like idempotency and a post-run status output.
1: https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra
In Server Setup Basics for Self HostingI'm using a combination of pyinfra for provisioning and justfile for one-off operations. In fact, I also have separate pyinfra scripts for provisioning my desktop and laptops, so I can have a fresh install and they will set it up with proper apps and desktop environment settings.
https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra
https://github.com/casey/just
In Server Setup Basics for Self HostingMostly this from the 3.x changelog:
> pyinfra now executes operations at runtime, rather than pre-generating commands. Although the change isn't noticeable this fixes an entire class of bugs and confusion. See the limitations section in the v2 docs. All of those issues are now a thing of the past.
https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/blob/3.x/CHANGELOG.md
In Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using PythonI am not elbow deep into Python ecosystem, but how many python code bases are fully type-hinted?
Maybe I am overlooking because I am not a pythonista, but when looking at this code [1] I see only some superficial hints. Looking at `_make_command`, I need to look inside the body to see that the first argument is expected (?) to be callable (it just ignores otherwise).
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1. https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/blob/3.x/pyinfra/api/...
In Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using PythonExtremely aware of this (see pyinstaller attempt): https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/pull/768)
I chose Python because it’s what I was writing all day back in 2015. Which makes me realise pyinfra is almost 10!
Edit: I mostly write Go or YAML (k8s) these days but Python still makes an appearance from time to time (outside of pyinfra dev).
In Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using PythonI like https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra. "pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python"
Only played with it for a little but it seems well designed an simpler alternative to ansible, chef and other such things.
In Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?Haven't used it in anger yet, but I have high hopes for PyInfra: https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra
In Interesting Uses of Ansible's ternary filterPyinfra: Pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at scale
4 points · Open discussionReally good write up. Been using gevent in pyinfra[1] for years and swear by it. Had some pains with setup, and am usually very wary of such magic, but it’s just really solid. Mostly write go these days though which has taken the shine off for sure!
Twisted, however, is a different beast. Have spent s decent chunk of time working on Matrix synapse homeserver[2], written in twisted, and oh my it just sucks.
[1] https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra
[2] https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse
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