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Discussion on: Docker Container on Azure Functions with Python

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Johan Eriksson

That was a nice article. But why even use docker ? I dont really see the purpose

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Omer Farooq Ahmed

So in this specific case, I needed to install tesseract-ocr on the Linux machine hosting my functions. One great way to do this is through a Dockerfile where I can define the commands I want to run on my base machine.