Using Docker will provide you a complete runtime env which will in most cases 'just work' on a variety of hosts. It's easy to reproduce and easy to distribute.

Using Docker will provide you a complete runtime env which will in most cases 'just work' on a variety of hosts. It's easy to reproduce and easy to distribute. You can easily setup other dependencies and connect everything together using docker compose, creating a portable 'production env'. And that's important when there's > 1 person working on a project. And it won't break the host machine because someone ran sudo pip install -r requirements.txt by mistake.