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ELI5 Using python virtual environment in docker container. (programming.dev)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by alexdeathway@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev
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I read some articles about using a virtual environment in Docker. Their argument are that the purpose of virtualization in Docker is to introduce isolation and limit conflicts with system packages etc.

However, aren't Docker and Python-based images (e.g., python:*) already doing the same thing?

Can someone eli5 this whole thing?

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[-] uthredii@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

upgrading your base image won’t affect your python packages

Surely if upgrading python will affect your global python packages it will also affect your venv python packages?

you can use multi stage builds to create drastically smaller final images

This can also be done without using venv's, you just need to copy them to the location where global packages are installed.

[-] sweng@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Upgrading the base image does not imply updating your python, and even updating your python does not imply updating your python packages (except for the standard libraries, of course).

[-] uthredii@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, but in the case where you upgrade python and it affects python packages it would affect global packages and a venv in the same way.

[-] sweng@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Sure If that happens. But it may also not. Which is actually usually the case. Sure, it's not 100% safe, but it is safer.

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