Dockerfile

# 3.12+ is required by the pinned scientific stack (numpy 2.5.0 / scipy 1.18.0),
# which are the versions that built and serialized models/pipeline.joblib.
FROM python:3.12-slim

WORKDIR /app

# Install dependencies first so the layer caches across code changes.
COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

# Copy the repo (model artifact + app code + metadata).
COPY . .

# Run as an unprivileged user.
RUN useradd --create-home --uid 1000 appuser \
    && chown -R appuser:appuser /app
USER appuser

EXPOSE 7860

CMD ["uvicorn", "app.main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "7860"]