google/python-runtime is a docker base image for easily running Python application.

It is based on google/python base image.

• Create a Dockerfile in your python application directory with the following content:

    FROM google/python-runtime
  

• Run the following command in your application directory:

    docker build -t my/app .
  

• Your application sources are copied into the /app directory.
• A virtualenv with your dependencies is created under the /env directory.

The image assumes that your application:

• has a requirements.txt file to specify its dependencies
• listens on port 8080
• either has a main.py script as entrypoint or defines ENTRYPOINT ["/env/bin/python", "/app/some_other_file.py"] in its Dockerfile

When building your application docker image, dependencies of your application are automatically fetched in a virtualenv using pip install.