FROM python:3.10-slim # Set timezone and noninteractive to avoid prompts during apt-get ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ENV TZ=UTC # Install system dependencies if required for some python packages RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ build-essential \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* WORKDIR /code COPY ./requirements.txt /code/requirements.txt # Install dependencies (CPU versions of torch are much smaller and better for free tier) RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r /code/requirements.txt # Create a non-root user (Required for Hugging Face Spaces) RUN useradd -m -u 1000 user USER user ENV HOME=/home/user \ PATH=/home/user/.local/bin:$PATH WORKDIR $HOME/app COPY --chown=user . $HOME/app # Hugging Face Spaces expose port 7860 CMD ["uvicorn", "backend_api:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "7860"]