I have no clue how the creation of directories, and writing into them, is working.

Dockerfile

@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ ENV PATH=/opt/conda/bin:$PATH
 WORKDIR /app
 COPY . /app
 
-RUN mkdir -p .cache
-RUN mkdir -p data
+#RUN mkdir -p .cache
+#RUN mkdir -p data
 # I'm not sure how to allow later python files used here to write to .cache without making it world-writeable.
-RUN chmod 777 -R .cache
-RUN chmod 777 -R data
+#RUN chmod 777 -R .cache
+#RUN chmod 777 -R data
 
     
 RUN apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ COPY ./entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
 COPY ./pause_space.py /pause_space.py
 COPY ./parse_requests.py /parse_requests.py
 COPY ./runs /runs
-COPY ./data /data
-COPY ./.cache /.cache
+#COPY ./data /data
+#COPY ./.cache /.cache
 #RUN chmod 777 -R /runs
 RUN chmod +x /entrypoint.sh