try

.gitignore

@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-.secrets
+.secrets
+data/oracle_cards_graph.pkl
+models/card_graph.pkl

Dockerfile

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/models /app/data && \
 
 RUN mkdir -p /.cache && chmod -R 777 /.cache
 
+COPY ./data /app/data
+
+COPY ./models /app/models
 
 # Copy the current directory contents into the container at /app
 COPY . /app

app/app.py

@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ from flask import Flask, request, jsonify
 import pickle
 import pandas as pd
 from flask_cors import CORS
-import download_models
 
-download_models.main()
 
 app = Flask(__name__)
 CORS(app)