deploying serverless from ubuntu with python dependencies hangs, fails, is generally unclear

[ryanovas]

Describe the Issue:

I am trying to deploy a very simple python script with a handful of dependencies via doctl and I just keep running into issue after issue:

• It seems the only way to install dependencies is to include a build script. However it is not clear without a ton of digging that snap installations will not let you build locally
• the deploy when building remotely appears to hang because there is no output whatsoever until the build is complete
• installing just 3 dependencies seems impossible. The build times out (and there's no way to change that timeout) every time
• If I add the --verbose-build flag then I get some stout back, but only so much before I just get 413 Payload Too Large instead.
• I also got an out of memory error once for the build. It's literally just running pip.
• --verbose and --trace don't change the output at all

Environment:

• doctl version: doctl version 1.120.2-release Git commit hash: 34e9fbbe
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Installation method: snap

Additional Details:

my requirements.txt:

pyiceberg[s3fs]==0.8.1
aiobotocore==2.17.0
polars==1.20.0

my build.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e

virtualenv --without-pip virtualenv
pip install -r requirements.txt --target virtualenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages

[ProgrammingPirates]

Hi , I’d like to work on this issue. Please assign it to me. @ryanovas

[ryanovas]

I'm not sure I have that power, I think a maintainer needs to do that 🙏