Honestly, I just wrote my Dockerfile using the example from the official Python container: https://hub.docker.com/_/python/ https://hub.docker.com/_/python/ Th

Honestly, I just wrote my Dockerfile using the example from the official Python container: https://hub.docker.com/_/python/ https://hub.docker.com/_/python/ Then I push the image to my company's internal Docker registry, ssh into the server, and pull the image. (also, aside from using Python 3 on RHEL 6, it also means using Python 3.6 on RHEL 7 without having to install python36u) Edit: Dockerfile (script name redacted) FROM python:3 WORKDIR /usr/src/app COPY requirements.txt ./ RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt COPY . . CMD [ "python", "./redacted.py" ] Build and push commands (company and script names redacted): docker build --rm -t dreg.example.com/redactedproject/redacted . docker push dreg.example.com/redactedproject/redacted Pull and run on the server (same stuff redacted as above, plus I redacted the actual port number to be on the safe side): docker pull dreg.example.com/redactedproject/redacted docker run -p 1337:1337 -d --name redacted dreg.example.com/redactedproject/redacted And at some point, I'll make proper startup scripts for them. On RHEL 7 boxes, I've made systemd unit files. On RHEL 6... well, I suppose I'll be writing initscripts soon.