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+# Use an official Python runtime based on Debian 12 "bookworm" as a parent image.
+FROM python:3.12-slim-bookworm  
+
+# Install system packages required by Wagtail and Django.
+RUN apt-get update --yes --quiet && apt-get install --yes --quiet --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential \
+    libpq-dev \
+    postgresql-client \
+    curl \
+    libjpeg62-turbo-dev \
+    zlib1g-dev \
+    libwebp-dev \
+    libpango-1.0-0 \
+    libpangoft2-1.0-0 \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+
+# Install task from their servers, not this requires curl
+# so you must only have this tkas post the apt updates
+RUN sh -c "$(curl --location https://taskfile.dev/install.sh)" \
+    -- -d -b /usr/local/bin
+
+WORKDIR /opt
+COPY Taskfile.yml Taskfile.yml
+COPY poetry.lock poetry.lock
+COPY pyproject.toml pyproject.toml
+
+# Ask poetry to install all packages including the app
+# not in virtual machine as we are in a container
+# In prodduction add --no-dev to poetry installation
+RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip
+RUN pip3 install poetry
+RUN poetry config virtualenvs.create false
+RUN poetry install --no-root
+
+# Copy the files in the src directory which is the app package
+# and the dependency matrix dedescribed by pyproject.toml
+WORKDIR /opt/${PROJ_NAME}
+
+# Run the CLI
+ENTRYPOINT [ "gala" ]
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