I've made some improvements to the Dockerfile used for development in stac-fastapi-elasticsearch https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-elasticsearch/blob/main/Dockerfile.dev

and created one that generates a deployable image https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-elasticsearch/blob/main/Dockerfile.deploy

I can port these changes to here if desired.

A few of the concerns I had about the existing Dockerfile are:

I'm not sure why it uses a 2-phase build with no directives in the first phase?

FROM python:3.8-slim as base FROM base as builder 

I don't think we have any requirements that need building from source or need git:

# Any python libraries that require system libraries to be installed will likely # need the following packages in order to build RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential git 

This isn't used anywhere in our code, and I couldn't find any tools that require it:

ARG install_dev_dependencies=true 

So it creates an /install dir, but then never uses it?

ENV PATH=$PATH:/install/bin RUN mkdir -p /install && \