Automate container creation from python

I'm using python to create templates of docker projects, it is working fine until the very last step when I want to build the container to create the image. The project structure I have so far is similar to this:

project |--flask_server.py |--main_script.py |--image_creator.sh |--Dockerfile |--requirements.txt 

My issue is with the file: image_creator.sh, which basically has:

docker build -t my_project:latest . 

That can't be executed without sudo. This is what I have tried so far in the python script, create_contaner.py, which have the following code:

import os import subprocess ... ... subprocess.call(['image_creator.sh']) 

1)

python create_contaner.py 

2)

 sudo python create_contaner.py 

3)

sudo su python create_contaner.py 

For all three cases I get:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'image_creator.sh' 

For the last one

I have also tried adding my current user to the group that can run docker without using sudo as explained here

sudo groupadd docker sudo gpasswd -a $USER docker 

After doing it from the terminal I can execute:

docker build -t my_project:latest . 

Which works with sudo, but if from that user I open python and try:

python create_contaner.py 

I still get the same error. Someone has pointing me to use docker-compose instead of docker build, that that does not seem to get rid of the issue of the permissions.