PyPI packages

You can install your required PyPI packages and import them in your Python files. Cortex looks for a requirements.txt file in the top level Cortex project directory (i.e. the directory which contains cortex.yaml):

./iris-classifier/
├── cortex.yaml
├── handler.py
├── ...
└── requirements.txt

Project files

Cortex makes all files in the project directory (i.e. the directory which contains cortex.yaml) available to request handlers. Python bytecode files (*.pyc, *.pyo, *.pyd), files or folders that start with ., and cortex.yaml are excluded.

The contents of the project directory is available in /mnt/project/ in the API containers. For example, if this is your project directory:

./iris-classifier/
├── cortex.yaml
├── config.json
├── handler.py
├── ...
└── requirements.txt

You can access config.json in handler.py like this:

import json
​
with open('/mnt/project/config.json', 'r') as config_file:
  config = json.load(config_file)
​
def pre_inference(sample, signature, metadata):
  print(config)
  ...