#323: Best practices for Docker in production

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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You've got your Python API or app running in a Docker container. Great! Are you ready to ship it to that hosted cluster service and head off to production? Not so fast. Have you considered how you'll manage evolving dependencies and addressing security updates over time? Not just for the base OS but for installed packages? How about your pip installed dependencies? Are you running as root? If you don't know, the answer is yes.

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0:00.0	You've got your Python API or app running in a Docker container.
0:03.0	Great!
0:04.0	Are you ready to ship it to that hosted container service and head off the production?
0:08.0	Not so fast.
0:09.0	Have you considered how you'll manage evolving the dependencies and addressing security updates over time?
0:14.0	Not just for the base OS, but for the installed packages?
0:17.0	How about your PIP installed dependencies?
0:20.0	Are you running as root? If you don't know,
0:22.2	the answer is yes. We'll discuss these and many more issues with Idemar Turner Trowing on this
0:28.1	episode. It's Talk Pythonomy, episode 323 recorded June 14th, 2021.
0:52.2	Music 21. Welcome to talk Python to me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries,
0:55.1	the ecosystem, and the personalities. This is your host,
0:59.5	Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy, and keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm, and follow the show on Twitter via at talk Python. This episode
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