dazzacodes/docker-python repository overview

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL DOCKER or PYTHON repository and NO SUPPORT will be provided. See the links below for official projects.

This project is motivated by trying to use docker-in-docker for gitlab-CI that runs python test suites where something needs a docker container/service.

In the builds of this project, the build-deps are kept in the image so that python libraries can easily build wheels when needed. Many users of alpine want smaller images, but at the expense of convenience for python packages that build wheels. If you are looking for a small python image, this might not be for you.

When using a docker image from this project, DO NOT apk add python3. Also understand that any use of apk add py3-* could be broken. If all you want is to use python3 on an alpine based docker container, DO NOT use this project, use the latest python provided by apk add python3.

⁠Approach

• use https://github.com/docker-library/docker⁠ as a base image to build python versions
• adapt https://github.com/docker-library/python/⁠
  • focus on the alpine builds
  • use docker base image, which is based on alpine
  • add bash and default to CMD ["/bin/bash"]

⁠GitHub

• https://github.com/dazza-codes/docker-python⁠