I have a Dockerfile where I tried to activate python virtualenv so that, it should install all dependencies within this env. However, everything still gets installed globally. I used different approaches and none of them worked. I am also not getting any errors. Where is the problem? 1. ENV PATH $PATH:env/bin 2. ENV PATH $PATH:env/bin/activate 3. RUN . env/bin/activate I also followed an example of a Dockerfile config for the python-runtime image on Google Cloud, which is basically the same stuff as above. Setting these environment variables are the same as running source /env/bin/activate. ENV VIRTUAL_ENV /env ENV PATH /env/bin:$PATH Additionally, what does ENV VIRTUAL_ENV /env mean and how it is used? Continue reading...
