
Docker + Flask | Dockerizing a Python API
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Billy Bonaros
Originally published on Towards AI.
Docker containers are one of the hottest trends in software development right now. Not only it makes it easier to create, deploy and run applications but by using containers you are confident that your application will run on any machine regardless of anything that may differ from yours that you created and tested the code.
In this tutorial, we will show you how you can dockerize easily a Flask API. We will use this Python Rest API Example. It’s a simple API that given an image URL it returns the dominant colors of the image.
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