Oracle AI cloud - develop local Pillow applications

Oracle AI Cloud provides by default a solution for developers who want to develop and deploy applications that make use of Pillow. Pillow is the friendly PIL fork by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors. Even though developing your code in the Oracle cloud makes sense in some cases, however, developing on your local workstation makes a lot more sense from time to time.

To start developing Pillow based applications the most easy way is to install pillow in a local Oracle Linux vagrant box. Setting up a local Oracle Vagrant box is relative straightforward and already discussed a couple of times in this blog.

Installing Pillow
Installing Pillow can be done by using pip, you can use the below example on how you need to install Python Pillow on Oracle Linux using pip.

[root@localhost site-packages]# pip install Pillow
Collecting Pillow
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/00/49/a0483e7308b4b04b5a898789911dbb876d9fea54e7df0453915e47744cfd/Pillow-5.1.0-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (2.0MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 2.0MB 190kB/s 
Installing collected packages: Pillow
Successfully installed Pillow-5.1.0
[root@localhost site-packages]#

As you can see, pip will take care of installing Pillow and gives you a ready to environment to start developing. This will help you to develop locally on projects you can deploy later on the Oracle AI Cloud.