Currently, I use pipenv to isolate my Django projects. I am considering deploying a project in Docker. What is the recommended best practice for using virtualenv/pipenv in a Docker environment? Should I continue to use pipenv in the Docker container?
I don’t know what’s generally considered “best practices”, but I can tell you that we don’t bother with virtualenv in our containers. Each Django-instance container is one instance of uwsgi running one project with all libraries installed globally for that instance.
(In fact, we have a “uwsgi” container that is the base for our Django-project instances, so every instance is built from that same base image.)
I’m with Ken here.
RUN pip install --upgrade pip && pip install -r requirements.txt
And off we go.
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