Library wkhtmltopdf is not working inside Docker - docker

Question

I have a code in Python Flask where I generate pdf files using an HTML template. The code works just fine when I run it alone, but when I try to run it inside a Docker container, as soon as I call the endpoint that generates the report the docker crashes and resets. It just stays loading then it returns an error (in Postman which I'm using to test).
The code for the PDF is as follows:
def create_report(download_uuid):
transactions = get_transaction_for_report(download_uuid)
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=environ.get('WKHTMLTOPDF'))
file_obj = io.BytesIO()
with zipfile.ZipFile(file_obj, 'w') as zip_file:
for transaction in transactions:
html = render_template("report.html", transaction=transaction)
pdf = pdfkit.from_string(html, False, configuration=config)
data = zipfile.ZipInfo('{}.pdf'.format(transaction['control_number']))
data.compress_type = zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED
zip_file.writestr(data, pdf)
file_obj.seek(0)
return send_file(file_obj, attachment_filename="forms.zip", as_attachment=True)
It is returning a zip file, but inside the zip file are pdf files. Furthermore, if I remove the pdf generating part, the zip file returns just fine. This is my Dockerfile:
FROM madnight/docker-alpine-wkhtmltopdf as wkhtmltopdf_image
FROM python:3.9-alpine
RUN adduser -D custom
WORKDIR /home/Project
COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
RUN python -m venv venv
RUN venv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
RUN apk add make automake gcc g++ subversion python3-dev jpeg-dev zlib-dev libffi-dev musl-dev openssl-dev freetype freetype-dev ttf-freefont libxrender qt5-qtbase-dev
RUN venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
RUN venv/bin/pip install gunicorn
COPY Project Project
COPY boot.sh app.py .env run.py create_database.py config.py ./
COPY templates templates
COPY static static
COPY --from=wkhtmltopdf_image /bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
RUN chmod +x boot.sh
ENV FLASK_APP app.py
USER root
RUN chown -R custom ./
USER custom
EXPOSE 9001
ENTRYPOINT ["./boot.sh"]
I should say that this is the last iteration of many, MANY attempts to try to get this to work. Essentially, I've tried getting wkhtmltox by curl, I've tried putting wkhtmltopdf in different directories. So far nothing has worked. I don't know what I'm missing. This is basically what I need to fix in order to finish this project so any help at all will be immensely appreciated.
EDIT: docker-compose.yml
version: '2'
services:
app:
build: .
networks:
- custom
ports:
- "9001:9001"
volumes:
- "./static:/home/EventismedEquipmentAPI/static"
external_links:
- eventismed-equipment:db
networks:
custom:
external: true

Answer 1

Let's fix this.
I've managed to run wkhtmltopdf isolated on a docker container.
Dockerfile:
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/62737156/152016
# Create image based on the official openjdk 8-jre-alpine image from the dockerhub
FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine
# Install wkhtmltopdf
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/56925361/152016
RUN apk add --no-cache wkhtmltopdf ttf-dejavu
ENTRYPOINT ["sh"]
docker-compose.yml:
version: '3.8'
services:
wkhtmltopdf:
image: wkhtmltopdf
container_name: wkhtmltopdf
build:
dockerfile: Dockerfile
context: .
Then:
docker-compose build
docker run -ti --rm -v /tmp:/tmp wkhtmltopdf
Inside the container:
$ cd /tmp
$ wkhtmltopdf https://www.google.com test.pdf
Then you will see the pdf on your mac at /tmp/test.pdf
First let me know if this works.