Python-fastapi app fails with empty volume

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I’ve been developing a simple python-fastapi app. Has been working fine in development. When I go to deploy the app, it only runs if I do not mount a volume or if the mounted volume contains all the source code, i.e. from cloning the GitHub repo. If I try to mount an empty volume it fails with the log output:

OS: development - PopOS
deployment - PopOS and Unraid (linux)

‘ERROR: Error loading ASGI app. Could not import module “main”.’

docker build command:
docker build . -t jamesonhm/invest-dash:latest --no-cache

docker run command:
docker run -v .:/invest_dash -p 9090:9090 jamesonhm/invest-dash:latest

GitHub repo:
https://github.com/jamesonhm/invest-dash

Dockerfile:

FROM python:3.11

EXPOSE 9090

ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1

RUN mkdir /invest_dash
WORKDIR /invest_dash

ENV PYTHONPATH "${PYTHONPATH}:/invest_dash"

COPY requirements.txt .

RUN pip install --upgrade pip
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

COPY . .
#VOLUME /invest_dash

CMD ["uvicorn", "main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "9090"]

Any help on why this is happening would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

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What you used was just a “bind mount”. It will hide the content in the container, the data must exist on the host. You can read about the differences in the documentation