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+# Use the official lightweight Python image.
+# https://hub.docker.com/_/python
+FROM python:3.8.1-slim
+
+# Copy local code to the container image.
+ENV APP_HOME /app
+WORKDIR $APP_HOME
+
+#workaround: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/28617
+ADD .env /app
+RUN cat .env >> /etc/environment
+
+##install required files
+
+#must run deploy command from folder containing server code
+COPY . ./
+
+# Install production dependencies.
+RUN pip install Flask gunicorn
+
+# Run the web service on container startup. Here we use the gunicorn
+# webserver, with one worker process and 2 threads.
+# For environments with multiple CPU cores, increase the number of workers
+# to be equal to the cores available.
+#to make app:app true, flask server variable name (left side of :) must be app
+CMD exec gunicorn --bind :$PORT --workers 1 --threads 2 app:app
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