How to use nemo docker container as base image

[famda]

Hi,
I'm trying to create a docker image that uses nemo as the base image.
I have a python project with some scripts (including a requirements.txt file with some additional dependencies) that I'm containerizing on that same image.

The Nemo base image is around 29GB in size but when I run pip install on the requirements file the output is around 100GB because it reinstalls everything and it takes ages to complete.

I'm trying to learn how to use this and make some cool examples with ASR and TTS for research/personal training.

I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong on this dependency hell. 😀

It would be nice to have a simple dockerfile that uses nvidia/nemo as base image and a simple python project in it.

Can someone help, please?

Thanks in advance.