cardinal_pythonlib.docker


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Support functions for Docker.

cardinal_pythonlib.docker.running_under_docker() → bool[source]

Are we running inside a Docker container?

As per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43878953/how-does-one-detect-if-one-is-running-within-a-docker-container-within-python … but without leaving a file open.