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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 final

All lessons in this course

  1. Writing a Django Dockerfile
  2. docker-compose with Postgres and Redis
  3. Entrypoints, Migrations, and collectstatic
  4. Production Image Best Practices
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