Azure SDK for Python Conda Distributions

The azure-sdk team maintains a suite of conda recipes built from combinations of other official pypi packages released from this repository. These packages are released on a 3-month cadence, built from a single configuration present in eng/pipelines/templates/stages/conda-sdk-client.yml.

The value of CondaArtifacts parameter is serialized to json, then consumed by the tooling CLI to create a set of conda packages.

Local Environment Setup

Follow the instructions here to install conda and conda-build.

CI Build Process

Update CondaArtifacts parameters as necessary within eng/pipelines/templates/stages/conda-sdk-client.yml .
If necessary, add or update the conda recipes present under /conda/conda-recipes.
Update eng/conda_env.yml variable AZURESDK_CONDA_VERSION to the target version you wish to release.
Invoke python - conda manually, checking off which packages you wish to release.
Once built, approve the packages for release individually, there will be pending approval stages.

How to Build an Azure SDK Conda Package Locally

Install the required tooling

# cd <repo root>
pip install "tools/azure-sdk-tools[build,conda]"

Get the configuration blob

To generate a configuration blob, I personally just use this site.

Paste a snippet copy-pasted from conda-sdk-client.yml. Use the output json as an argument to sdk_build_conda as described below.

Generate the Conda Package

# you will probably need to escape the json quotes
sdk_build_conda -c "<json config blob>" --channel "additional/channel/if/you/want/one"