Dockerfile

FROM python:3.10-slim

# Create a new user - myuser
RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash myuser

# Switch to that user
USER myuser

# Create a .cache directory for Hugging Face transformers
# This is necessary to avoid permission issues when running the container as a non-root user,
# especially when using Hugging Face libraries.
# The directory will be used to store cached files, models, etc.
# The permissions are set to allow read/write access for the user.
RUN mkdir -p /home/myuser/.cache && chmod -R 755 /home/myuser/.cache

ADD requirements.txt .

RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

ADD my_server.py .

EXPOSE 8000

CMD ["python", "my_server.py"]