Managing language package distribution with Artifact Registry

You can use Artifact Registry to manage language packages, just as you can use it to manage container images. In this section, you’ll do the following:

1. Create a repository for Python packages
2. Upload a package
3. View the packages in the repository

Artifact Registry is designed to be a universal package-management application, supporting multiple package types. Knowing how to manage more than one type can be advantageous. Our first package type shows how Artifact Registry supports Python applications. Our second package type shows Go language packages. This highlights some of the similarities and differences in how different programming languages are supported using Artifact Registry.

First, let’s create the repository.

Creating a repository for a Python package from the demo app

The first thing we need to do is to create the repository in which to put our Python package.

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