FROM python:3.9-slim # THIS IS SPECIFIC TO HUGGINFACE # We create a new user named "user" with ID of 1000 RUN useradd -m -u 1000 user # We switch from "root" (default user when creating an image) to "user" USER user # We set two environmnet variables # so that we can give ownership to all files in there afterwards # we also add /home/user/.local/bin in the $PATH environment variable # PATH environment variable sets paths to look for installed binaries # We update it so that Linux knows where to look for binaries if we were to install them with "user". ENV HOME=/home/user \ PATH=/home/user/.local/bin:$PATH # We set working directory to $HOME/app (<=> /home/user/app) WORKDIR $HOME/app RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir --upgrade fastapi[standard] uvicorn COPY --chown=user . $HOME/app EXPOSE 7860 CMD ["fastapi", "run", "app.py", "--port", "7860"]