Dockerfile

# Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
FROM python:3.9-slim

# Set the working directory in the container
WORKDIR /app

# Copy the content of the uploaded directory (which are the files from deployment_files) into the container's /app directory
COPY . /app

# Set the working directory to /app where the files are located
WORKDIR /app

# Install any needed packages specified in requirements.txt
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

# Expose the port the app runs on
EXPOSE 5000

# Run the application using Gunicorn
# The command looks for 'product_sales_api' within the 'app' module
CMD ["gunicorn", "-w", "4", "-b", "0.0.0.0:5000", "app:product_sales_api"]