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+# TODO This should be in its own place to reference for all projects,
+#      built pre-project
+
+FROM openresty/openresty:1.31.1.1-bookworm
+
+LABEL maintainer = "Tangent/Rose <tangentfoxy@gmail.com>"
+ENV RUN_ENV=development
+
+RUN mkdir /app
+VOLUME /app
+
+EXPOSE 8080
+WORKDIR /app
+ENTRYPOINT ["sh", "-c", "sleep 5 && lapis migrate $RUN_ENV && lapis serve $RUN_ENV"]
+
+RUN apt-get update
+RUN apt-get upgrade -y
+RUN apt-get install libssl-dev git -y   # OpenSSL header dependency
+
+RUN luarocks install lapis
+RUN luarocks install luacrypto       # legacy requirement (lapis)
+RUN luarocks install bcrypt
+RUN luarocks install lapis-console
+RUN luarocks install lua-cjson
+# RUN luarocks install markdown        # legacy requirement; probably discardable
+
+# clean up
+RUN apt-get autoremove -y
+RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
+
+# legacy
+# actually build stuff!
+# RUN luarocks install moonscript
+# COPY . .
+# RUN moonc .