FROM python:3.9 RUN mkdir -p $HOME/app/data/vectorstore && chown -R user:user $HOME/app/data and in app.py via constant path to make a directory path: DATA_DIR = "./data" VECTORSTORE_DIR = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, "vectorstore") VECTORSTORE_PATH = os.path.join(VECTORSTORE_DIR, "index.faiss") RUN useradd -m -u 1000 user USER user ENV HOME=/home/user \ PATH=/home/user/.local/bin:$PATH WORKDIR $HOME/app COPY --chown=user . $HOME/app COPY ./requirements.txt ~/app/requirements.txt RUN pip install -r requirements.txt COPY . . CMD ["chainlit", "run", "app.py", "--port", "7860"]