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+FROM python:latest
+# get args from build: in docker-compose
+# this forces /code to be owned by the user specified in the docker-compose file, we could ignore issues without this (but I am writing log files to the current dir with gunicorn as a non-priv'd user)
+ARG USERID
+ARG GROUPID
+RUN apt-get dist-upgrade -y
+WORKDIR /code
+COPY . .
+RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+RUN chown -R ${USERID}:${GROUPID} /code
+EXPOSE 80
+CMD gunicorn --bind=0.0.0.0:80 --workers=2 --threads=2 main:app --env ENV="production" --error-logfile /code/gunicorn.error.log --access-logfile /code/gunicorn.log --capture-output
+# comment out the gunicorn line & uncomment the sleep so you can run gunicorn by hand in case it does not start on init (via docker exec...)
+#CMD sleep 99999