Dockerfile

# Use a Python base image
FROM python:3.9-slim-buster

# Set working directory
WORKDIR /app

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

# Copy your application code
COPY app.py .

# Expose the port your API will run on (Hugging Face Spaces uses 7860 by default for Gradio/Streamlit,
# but for custom Docker, you can choose, e.g., 8000 for FastAPI or 5000 for Flask).
EXPOSE 8000

# Command to run your FastAPI/Flask app
CMD ["uvicorn", "app:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8000"] # For FastAPI
# CMD ["python", "app.py"] # For a simple Flask app