---
title: "Python Docker Configuration"
slug: "python-docker-configuration"
description: "Easily bind Host Trace directory to Guest Trace in Docker using Prefix. Learn how to set it up and fix Python trace logging directories for improved performance."
updated: 2022-01-03T20:26:41Z
published: 2022-01-03T20:26:41Z
canonical: "docs.stackify.com/python-docker-configuration"
---

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# Python Docker Configuration

Follow the instructions here on how to add our profiler to your Dockerfile.

## Binding the Host Trace directory to the Guest Trace directory

To get Prefix to read the traces from your app in docker, you need to use bind-mounts as mentioned in [this article](https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/){target="_blank"}. 

## Example
If the host OS is Linux and you also have a Linux OS in the container, you need to bind `/usr/local/stackify/stackify-python-apm`  to the same path in the guest OS for Prefix to see the logs.

:::(Info) (Fixed Logging Directories for Python traces)
Linux: `/usr/local/stackify/stackify-python-apm/log`
:::

## To bind these directories
We use the ***--mount*** argument for the docker run command as follows:
`docker run -it --rm -p 8000:80  \`
  `--mount type=bind,source="/usr/local/stackify/stackify-python-apm/log",target=/usr/local/stackify/stackify-python-apm/log \`
  `--name python_sample python-apm`