Is there a way to compile a Python program to binary and use it with a Scratch Dockerfile?

Question

I\'ve been playing around with docker images recently. I saw this docker doc on using FROM scratch. I am trying to see how far I can take this just for fun. I p

Answer 1

So the answer is to use Google's distroless image. They have an example on their github that I have slightly edited as follows.:

# Build a virtualenv using the appropriate Debian release
# * Install python3-venv for the built-in Python3 venv module (not installed by default)
# * Install gcc libpython3-dev to compile C Python modules
# * Update pip to support bdist_wheel
FROM debian:buster-slim AS build
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends --yes python3-venv gcc libpython3-dev && \
    python3 -m venv /venv && \
    /venv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip

# Build the virtualenv as a separate step: Only re-execute this step when requirements.txt changes
FROM build AS build-venv
COPY requirements.txt /requirements.txt
RUN /venv/bin/pip install --disable-pip-version-check -r /requirements.txt

# Copy the virtualenv into a distroless image
FROM gcr.io/distroless/python3-debian10
COPY --from=build-venv /venv /venv
COPY . /app
WORKDIR /app
ENTRYPOINT ["/venv/bin/python3", "hello.py"]

Just posting this in case someone is wondering. Definitely a cool thing.

Link to google distroless image

The video that helped me a lot