Dockerfile

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

# Set the working directory in the container
WORKDIR /app

# Copy only the requirements file first to leverage Docker cache
COPY requirements.txt /app/

# Install any needed packages specified in requirements.txt
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

# Copy the current directory contents into the container at /app
COPY . /app

# Install sentence-transformers (this should be in requirements.txt if possible)
# RUN pip install sentence-transformers

# Make port 5000 available to the world outside this container
EXPOSE 5000

# Define environment variable
ENV FLASK_APP=app.py

# Run app.py when the container launches
CMD ["flask", "run", "--host=0.0.0.0"]