sentence-transformer working locally however not when deployed docker container on Hugging Face even after successful built how always shows starting status and then timeout after 30 min facing the issue for last few days shows following for a long time. Any help in following is welcome or way to trouble shoot is also good for way ahead
Locally its working fine without docker and for Hugging Face my Dockerfile is as below
#Use the official Python 3.10 slim image
FROM python:3.10.11-slim
#Set environment variables
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
#Install basic build tools and libraries (required by faiss-cpu, PyMuPDF, etc.)
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends
build-essential
cmake
libopenblas-dev
libomp-dev
poppler-utils
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
#Create a working directory
WORKDIR /app
#Set Hugging Face cache directory
ENV HF_HOME=/app/cache
RUN mkdir -p /app/cache && chmod -R 777 /app/cache
#Copy requirements first (for Docker layer caching)
COPY requirements.txt .
#Install Python dependencies (no version pinning)
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
#Create directories with proper read/write permissions
RUN mkdir -p /app/uploads/vectors && chmod -R 777 /app/uploads
#Copy the rest of the application files
COPY . .
#Expose the port used by your Flask app (e.g., 7860)
EXPOSE 7860
#Start the Flask app
#CMD [“python”, “run.py”]
#Run Gunicorn
CMD [“gunicorn”, “–bind”, “0.0.0.0:7860”, “wsgi:obj_app”]
