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using `PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=off` in docker env ,make sure downloaded packages
by pip don't cached on system . This is a best practice which make sure
to fetch from repo instead of using local cached one . Further , in case
of Docker Containers , by restricting caching , we can reduce image size.
In term of stats , it depends upon the number of python packages
multiplied by their respective size . e.g for heavy packages with a lot
of dependencies it reduce a lot by don't caching pip packages.

Further , more detail information can be found at

https://medium.com/sciforce/strategies-of-docker-images-optimization-2ca9cc5719b6

Signed-off-by: Pratik Raj <rajpratik71@gmail.com>
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# Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
FROM ubuntu:18.04
RUN rm /bin/sh && ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1 \
PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=off

ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

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