[Doc] Dockerfile instructions for optional dependencies and dev trans…

…formers

Signed-off-by: DarkLight1337 <tlleungac@connect.ust.hk>

docs/source/deployment/docker.md

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 memory to share data between processes under the hood, particularly for tensor parallel inference.
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+:::{note}
+Optional dependencies are not included in order to avoid licensing issues (e.g. <gh-issue:8030>).
+
+If you need those dependencies, create a custom Dockerfile on top of the base image
+with an extra layer that installs them.
+
+For example, to include the `audio` and `video` optional dependencies:
+
+```Dockerfile
+FROM vllm/vllm-openai:latest
+
+RUN uv pip install --system vllm[audio,video]
+```
+
+:::
+
+:::{tip}
+Some new models may not have been released on [HF Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) yet.
+
+To use the development version of `transformers`, create a custom Dockerfile on top of the base image
+with an extra layer that installs their code from source:
+
+```Dockerfile
+FROM vllm/vllm-openai:latest
+
+RUN uv pip install --system git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
+```
+
+:::
+
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 ## Building vLLM's Docker Image from Source