Allowing `smoosense` to be hosted on remote servers by not hardcoding host to `localhost`

[jonded94]

Hey 👋

Currently, because of this parameter host being hardcoded to localhost, it's impossible to host smoosense on a remote host.

I'd suggest to maybe either hardcoding 0.0.0.0 there or introduce an additional --host parameter for that?

[slinjhu]

Hi @jonded94 , this is in cli module and it is only meant for running in local command line.

For deployment, you can run a python server like this:

import os

import boto3
from flask import jsonify
from flask import request
from smoosense.app import SmooSenseApp


session = boto3.Session()
s3_client = session.client("s3")

app = SmooSenseApp(
    s3_client=s3_client
    ).create_app()



if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run() 

[jonded94]

Hey @slinjhu , I hacked together some minimal Dockerfile which should contain everything to host smoosense on a remote server (for example exposing some mounted remote filesystem). S3 isn't really important to us, we mount a remote distributed block storage system.

FROM ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:python3.14-trixie-slim

ARG SMOOSENSE_VERSION

ARG UV_LINK_MODE=copy
ARG UV_TOOL_DIR=/opt/uv-tools
ARG UV_TOOL_BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin

RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
    uv tool install \
      --with smoosense==${SMOOSENSE_VERSION} \
      --with gevent \
      gunicorn

WORKDIR /app

RUN printf 'from smoosense.app import SmooSenseApp \napp = SmooSenseApp().create_app()\n' > /app/app.py

RUN useradd -m -s /bin/bash -u 1000 user

USER 1000

EXPOSE 8000

CMD ["gunicorn", "app:app", \
     "--bind", "0.0.0.0:8000", \
     "--workers", "4", \
     "--worker-class", "gevent", \
     "--worker-connections", "1000", \
     "--worker-tmp-dir", "/dev/shm", \
     "--error-logfile", "-"]