WARNING: Running pip as the ‘root’ user

The way your container is built doesn’t add a user, so everything is done as root.

You could create a user and install to that users’s home directory by doing something like this;

FROM python:3.8.3-alpine

RUN pip install --upgrade pip

RUN adduser -D myuser
USER myuser
WORKDIR /home/myuser

COPY --chown=myuser:myuser requirements.txt requirements.txt
RUN pip install --user -r requirements.txt

ENV PATH="/home/myuser/.local/bin:${PATH}"

COPY --chown=myuser:myuser . .

CMD ["python", "manage.py", "runserver", "0.0.0.0:8000"]

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