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-FROM python:3.9-slim
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-# Install curl for healthcheck and other dependencies
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl && \
-    apt-get clean && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# Install dependencies first to leverage Docker cache.
-COPY requirements.txt .
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
-
-# Copy the entire application.
-COPY . .
-
-# Run the minifier to process HTML templates.
-RUN python minify.py
-
-# Create a non-root user first.
-RUN adduser --disabled-password --gecos '' appuser
-
-# Change ownership of the /app directory so that appuser can write files.
-RUN chown -R appuser:appuser /app
-
-# Create a directory for logs with proper permissions
-RUN mkdir -p /app/logs && chown -R appuser:appuser /app/logs
-
-USER appuser
-
-EXPOSE 5000
-
-# Add environment variables for app configuration
-ENV FLASK_ENV=production
-ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
-ENV PYTHON_UNBUFFERED=1
-
-# Improve healthcheck reliability - use new health endpoint
-HEALTHCHECK --interval=15s --timeout=5s --start-period=30s --retries=3 \
-  CMD curl -f http://localhost:5000/api/health || exit 1
-
-# Use Gunicorn as the production WSGI server with improved settings
-# For shared global state, we need to keep the single worker model but optimize other parameters
-CMD ["gunicorn", "-b", "0.0.0.0:5000", "App:app", \
-     "--workers=1", \
-     "--threads=12", \
-     "--timeout=600", \
-     "--keep-alive=5", \
-     "--log-level=info", \
-     "--access-logfile=-", \
-     "--error-logfile=-", \
-     "--log-file=-", \
-     "--graceful-timeout=60", \
-     "--worker-tmp-dir=/dev/shm"]
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