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How to “Dockerize” Your Python Applications

Tyler Charboneau
Apr 22 2022

Millions of developers use Python to build modern, scalable applications. For developers who value performance, cross-platform portability, and convenience, deploying these apps within a Docker environment can be advantageous. That said, what kinds of applications can...

Video: How to Dockerize a Python App with FastAPI

David Oro
May 5 2021

Join host Peter McKee and Python wizard Michael Kennedy for a warts-and-all demo of how to Dockerize a Python app using FastAPI, a popular Python framework. Kennedy is a developer and entrepreneur, and the founder and host of two successful Python podcasts — Talk...

Guest Post: Calling the Docker CLI from Python with Python-on-whales

Gabriel de Marmiesse
Mar 11 2021

Image: Alice Lang, [email protected] At Docker, we are incredibly proud of our vibrant, diverse and creative community. From time to time, we feature cool contributions from the community on our blog to highlight some of the great work our community does....

How to Deploy GPU-Accelerated Applications on Amazon ECS with Docker Compose

Anca Iordache
Feb 16 2021

Many applications can take advantage of GPU acceleration, in particular resource-intensive Machine Learning (ML) applications. The development time of such applications may vary based on the hardware of the machine we use for development. Containerization will...

How Developers Can Get Started with Python and Docker

Peter McKee
Feb 12 2021

Python started in 1991 with humble beginnings focusing on helping “automate the boring stuff.” But over the past few years, we’ve seen Python grow in popularity and become extremely useful not only for scripting but for building modern web applications, machine...

Containerized Python Development – Part 3

Anca Iordache
Jul 28 2020

This is the last part in the series of blog posts showing how to set up and optimize a containerized Python development environment. The first part covered how to containerize a Python service and the best development practices for it. The second part showed how to...

Containerized Python Development – Part 2

Anca Iordache
Jul 21 2020

This is the second part of the blog post series on how to containerize our Python development. In part 1, we have already shown how to containerize a Python service and the best practices for it. In this part, we discuss how to set up and wire other components to a...

Containerized Python Development – Part 1

Anca Iordache
Jul 15 2020

Developing Python projects in local environments can get pretty challenging if more than one project is being developed at the same time. Bootstrapping a project may take time as we need to manage versions, set up dependencies and configurations for it. Before, we...

Awesome projects from the Docker community

Guillaume J. Charmes
Jul 11 2013

Everyday the Docker community is building awesome tools and projects with and for Docker. Today we want to share some of them with you. 1. Projects built with Docker JiffyLab - web based environment for the instruction, or lightweight use of, Python and UNIX shell by...