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Change docker build process and underlying image to shrink final production image to 734MB

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Rebased final image on node:lts-bookworm-slim with curl and openssl installed and cache cleaned
Using dive discovered that npm prune --omit=dev leaves a lot of unnecessary cache, so moved this to separate build stage and copied node_modules into final production image

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This is nearing the theoretical limit for a docker image size for this project:
node 120MB
node_modules 448MB
/www 2MB

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@rmlearney-digicatapult rmlearney-digicatapult requested a review from a team as a code owner November 16, 2024 13:23
@rmlearney-digicatapult rmlearney-digicatapult changed the title Shrink docker image from 1.64GB -> 730MB Shrink docker image from 1.64GB -> 660MB Nov 17, 2024
@rmlearney-digicatapult rmlearney-digicatapult changed the title Shrink docker image from 1.64GB -> 660MB Shrink docker image from 1.64GB -> 740MB Nov 17, 2024
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It is possible to reduce the image size further to 660MB by using RedHat UBI9-minimal as the base image for the production layer, but I reverted these changes because it's not a distro we've used before.

@rmlearney-digicatapult rmlearney-digicatapult changed the title Shrink docker image from 1.64GB -> 740MB Shrink docker image from 2.1GB -> 1.1GB Jul 9, 2025
@rmlearney-digicatapult rmlearney-digicatapult added the v:patch Change requires a semver patch version change label Jul 20, 2025
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