FROM python:3.10-slim # Set environment variables ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1 ENV HF_HOME /app/.cache/huggingface WORKDIR /app # Install system dependencies RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ build-essential \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # Install python dependencies First for caching COPY requirements.txt /app/ RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt # Copy application code COPY . /app/ # Try to download the transformer model during build to cache it in the image constraint # We use a python one-liner to download the model RUN python -c "from transformers import pipeline; pipeline('token-classification', model='dslim/bert-base-NER')" || echo "Warning: Model download failed during build, it will download at runtime." # Expose port EXPOSE 8000 # Command to run the application # We use a shell-style CMD to allow variable expansion for $PORT CMD uvicorn app.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port ${PORT:-8000}