how to run gunicorn on docker

Question

I have 2 files that depend on each other when docker is start up. 1 is a flask file and one is a file with a few functions. When docker starts, only the functions file will

Answer 1

After struggling with this issue over the last 3 days, I found that all you need to do is to bind to loopback rather than localhost:

CMD ["gunicorn" , "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8000", "app:app"]

And don't forget to expose the port, one option to do that is to use EXPOSE in your Dockerfile:

EXPOSE 8000

Now:

docker build -t test .

Finally you can run:

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 test