social_media_platform/Dockerfile

# The first instruction is what image we want to base our container on
# We Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
FROM python:3.6

# The enviroment variable ensures that the python output is set straight
# to the terminal with out buffering it first
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1

# create root directory for our project in the container
RUN mkdir /esther_kleinhenz_ba

# Set the working directory to /esther_kleinhenz_ba
WORKDIR /esther_kleinhenz_ba

# Copy the current directory contents into the container at /esther_kleinhenz_ba
ADD . /esther_kleinhenz_ba/

# Install any needed packages specified in requirements.txt
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt