load the sentence transformers in dockerfile

Author: commit111

app/Dockerfile

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ COPY requirements.txt /app/
 # Install Python dependencies
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
+# Preload the sentence transformer model to cache
+RUN python -c "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')"
+
 # Copy the application source code into the container
 COPY . /app