MoviePy Docker#

Prerequisites#

Docker installed Docker for Mac, Docker for windows, linux, etc

Build the docker#

  1. Move into the moviepy root dir

  2. Build the Dockerfile

    docker build -t moviepy -f Dockerfile .

How to run the unittests from docker#

Run pytest inside the container with the following command

docker run -w /moviepy -it moviepy python -m pytest

Running your own moviepy script from docker#

Change directory to where your script is located

If moviepy docker container is already running, you can connect by:

docker exec -it moviepy python myscript.py

If the container isn’t running already

docker run -it moviepy bash
python myscript.py

You can also start a container and run a script in one command:

docker run -it -v `pwd`:/code moviepy python myscript.py