Docker Build Sometimes Fails

[THOR300]

The following step sometimes fails meaning that one must re-trigger the build.

RUN python -c "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; SentenceTransformer('sentence-transformers/msmarco-distilbert-dot-v5', cache_folder='/models')"

Error from local build, in github actions the error was a requests timeout error:

ValueError: Connection error, and we cannot find the requested files in the cached path. Please try again or make sure your Internet connection is on.

My understanding of this line is that the model is downloaded from source and cached in a models folder.

A solution could be building a base image with the model already downloaded and building the indexer on top of that.