isard/alpine-pandas repository overview

The build of pandas library in alpine takes too long that we decided to create this base image with all the required packages to run python3 apps with pandas:

#The Dockerfile is:

FROM alpine:latest MAINTAINER isard [email protected]⁠

RUN echo "http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing⁠" >> /etc/apk/repositories RUN apk update RUN apk add --no-cache python3 &&
python3 -m ensurepip &&
rm -r /usr/lib/python*/ensurepip &&
pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools &&
if [ ! -e /usr/bin/pip ]; then ln -s pip3 /usr/bin/pip ; fi &&
if [[ ! -e /usr/bin/python ]]; then ln -sf /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python; fi &&
rm -r /root/.cache RUN ln -s /usr/include/locale.h /usr/include/xlocale.h RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .build_deps build-base python3-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev RUN pip3 install pandas RUN apk del .build_deps CMD ["python3"]