Dockerfile

FROM python:3.11-slim

# Set up a new user named "user" with user ID 1000
# Hugging Face enforces running as a non-root user
RUN useradd -m -u 1000 user

# Set environment variables
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
    PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
    HOME=/home/user \
    PATH=/home/user/.local/bin:$PATH

# Switch to root to install dependencies and system packages if needed
USER root
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    build-essential \
    curl \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Switch back to user
USER user
WORKDIR /app

# Copy requirements and install them
COPY --chown=user backend/requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r requirements.txt

# Copy the rest of the backend files
COPY --chown=user backend/ /app/backend/

# Expose port 7860 to the outside world
EXPOSE 7860

# Command to run the application using Gunicorn with Uvicorn workers
# Binding to 0.0.0.0:7860 as required by Hugging Face
CMD ["gunicorn", "--chdir", "/app/backend", "main:app", "--workers", "4", "--worker-class", "uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:7860", "--timeout", "120"]