Production Image Best Practices
Use multi-stage builds and non-root users.
Smaller, Safer Images
A production image should be small and secure. A leaner image ships faster, starts quicker, and offers attackers less to target. 🛡️
Use Multi-Stage Builds
A multi-stage build compiles deps in one stage and copies only the results into a clean final image.
FROM python:3.12 AS builder
FROM python:3.12-slim AS finalAll lessons in this course
- Writing a Django Dockerfile
- docker-compose with Postgres and Redis
- Entrypoints, Migrations, and collectstatic
- Production Image Best Practices