Use alpine as the base container for the docker image

instead of the standard python:3.5 image; this reduces the size from over 700 MB to 85 MB.
visupatlolla · Nov 5, 2016 · 16db107 · 16db107
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-FROM python:3.5
+FROM alpine:3.4
+
+# from https://github.com/frol/docker-alpine-python3
+RUN apk add --no-cache python3 && \
+    python3 -m ensurepip && \
+    rm -r /usr/lib/python*/ensurepip && \
+    pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools && \
+    rm -r /root/.cache
+
 ADD . /code
 WORKDIR /code
 RUN pip install gunicorn