docker-python3-template

Template for dockerized applications developed in Python3

General information

• Base image: python:3-alpine

Building and running

• Build

docker build -t <image_tag> .

• Run

docker run -i -t --rm <image_tag>

For additional information about build and run commands:

docker build --help
docker run --help

A simplified version is available by using the build.py and run.py scripts. These will take the name of the root directory as the image tag.

python build.py # equivalent to "docker build -t docker-python3-template"
python run.py # equivalent to "docker run -i -t --rm docker-python3-template"

Considerations

• In case of installing new dependencies, requirements.txt needs to be updated before build.

# after pip install
pip freeze > requirements.txt

• To modify the Docker image you only need to modify the file called Dockerfile. More information about Dockerfile here.