Create a Docker container using Dockerfile

Find the project you want to create a container for and copy the entire folder and an empty file "Dockerfile" into the same directory. In this example we will copy "aci_app_ro" and "Dockerfile" inside the newly created directory "docker".

$pwd

/root/home

$ls

aci_app_ro Dockerfile

$mkdir docker

$cp aci_app_ro/ docker

$cp Dockerfile docker

Once you have all the files in the "docker" directory edit the "Dockerfile" with the following:

$cd docker

~/docker$ nano Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:18.04

RUN apt-get update -y

RUN apt-get install -y apt-utils

RUN apt-get install -y python-pip

RUN apt-get install -y python-dev build-essential

COPY aci_app_ro /aci_app_ro

WORKDIR /aci_app_ro

RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

ENTRYPOINT ["python"]

CMD ["oneaciapp.py"]

Save the Dockerfile and build the container:

~/docker$ docker build . --tag aci_app_ro

Sending build context to Docker daemon  2.814MB

Step 1/10 : FROM ubuntu:18.04

 ---> 2c047404e52d

Step 2/10 : RUN apt-get update -y

 ---> Using cache

 ---> 1b7c84406e57

Step 3/10 : RUN apt-get install -y apt-utils

 ---> Using cache

 ---> 3297130974f4

Step 4/10 : RUN apt-get install -y python-pip

 ---> Using cache

 ---> e718357e701c

Step 5/10 : RUN apt-get install -y python-dev build-essential

 ---> Using cache

 ---> 96e1cd0f87a0

Step 6/10 : COPY aci_app_ro /aci_app_ro

 ---> Using cache

 ---> 5cfada21415a

Step 7/10 : WORKDIR /aci_app_ro

 ---> Using cache

 ---> 1fd61751593f

Step 8/10 : RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

 ---> Using cache

 ---> 1423f72bfbb7

Step 9/10 : ENTRYPOINT ["python"]

 ---> Using cache

 ---> 8970d0c9c7a8

Step 10/10 : CMD ["oneaciapp.py"]

 ---> Using cache

 ---> f5df0cc62b98

Successfully built f5df0cc62b98

Check the you have the docker image in the repository:

 ~/docker$ docker image ls | grep f5df0cc62b98

aci_app_ro_container         latest                f5df0cc62b98        2 minutes ago        468MB

Create new project and push to Github

work on a project locally inside a folder. Before you execute any git commands make sure you exclude any sensitive files where you may have credentials. For example you may have a creds.py file to avoid saving usernames, passwords or API keys directly into your development code. 

$ echo creds.py >> .gitignore 

## Initialize a new repository from command line

echo "# Flask-Portal" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M master
git remote add origin https://github.com/aresik/Flask-Portal.git
git push -u origin master