FROM python:3.12-slim WORKDIR /app # Install dependencies first (layer caching) COPY requirements.txt . RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt # Copy app code COPY app.py . EXPOSE 5000 # Basic container-level health check (Docker/most platforms respect this) HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --start-period=10s --retries=3 \ CMD python -c "import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen('http://localhost:5000/health')" || exit 1 # gunicorn for production-grade serving instead of Flask dev server CMD ["gunicorn", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:5000", "--workers", "2", "app:app"]