Workshop: Fundamentals for Improving Python Productivity and Security
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ActiveState’s Avery Speller, Solutions Engineer, and Product Marketing Manager, Dana Crane, take you through the steps of building a secure Python runtime and fast, using the ActiveState Platform. Especially great for DevSecOps professionals and Python developers, this workshop goes through:
- Package management: Setting up a virtual Python environment and adding all required packages with dependency conflicts automatically resolved or flagged.
- Reproducibility: Using the CLI tool as a universal package manager to “replace the Read Me” by setting up and deploying environments in a consistent, reproducible way.
- Security: working with vetted packages, identifying and resolving vulnerabilities and ensuring provenance.
- API: Getting direct access to detailed package and language information, including source code, vulnerabilities and dependencies.
This google doc has the links and commands you will need to properly follow the workshop.
Keep the conversation going at our community forum for this workshop. Try what you have learnt with other Python distributions and see how vulnerable you are, see what licenses you’re using.
Useful Resources:
New to the ActiveState Platform? At ActiveState, we use our Platform to build not only our popular open source language distributions but also custom environments for our enterprise customers (i.e. language builds containing just the packages their application requires). All environments created with the ActiveState Platform are built from source, assessed for security vulnerabilities (CVEs), and can be updated in a timely manner.
Coders can use the Platform for free to build a Python, Perl, or Tcl environment for their project. Enterprise decision-makers can find a suitable tier from our Platform Pricing options or contact Sales.
