Dockerfile

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

# Set the working directory in the container
WORKDIR /app

# Set environment variables to prevent Python from writing .pyc files and to buffer output
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1

# Copy the requirements file into the container at /app
COPY requirements.txt .

# Install the dependencies
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

# Copy the rest of the application source code into the container at /app
COPY . .

# Expose port 8080 to allow communication to/from the container
EXPOSE 7860

# Define the command to run the application
# Use Gunicorn as the production server with Uvicorn workers
CMD ["gunicorn", "--workers", "4", "--worker-class", "uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8080", "ebapi:app"]