Create Virtual Environment, Activate/Deactivate Win mkdir my_project cd my_project python3 -m venv env env\Scripts\activate.bat env\Scripts\deactivate.bat Unix sudo apt install -y python3-pip sudo apt install -y build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev sudo apt install -y python3-venv mkdir myapp cd myapp python3 -m venv env source env/bin/activate deactivate Bash script #!/usr/bin/env bash BASEDIR=$(dirname "$0") echo "Executing App in '$BASEDIR'" PORT=$1 source $BASEDIR/env/bin/activate python $BASEDIR/service.py $PORT chmod +x myapp/run.sh ./myapp/run.sh 8888