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Dockerizing the Core App

Dockerizing the Core App

Learn how to dockerize a Flask application.

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Adding the Core app’s Dockerfile

To dockerize our Core app, we'll create a Dockerfile inside the backendservice2 folder. In this Dockerfile, we'll specify the operating system, servers, frameworks, and any other variables necessary for our Core app to run in a Docker environment. With this file, we can create a Docker image and run an instance of the Docker container.

Here is the Dockerfile for our Core app:

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FROM python:latest
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
ENV PIP_ROOT_USER_ACTION=ignore
WORKDIR /backendservice
COPY requirements.txt /backendservice/requirements.txt
RUN pip install --upgrade pip
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
COPY . /backendservice

  • Line 1: We use the FROM command to indicate the base image with the operating system for our Docker environment. Here, it is the latest ...