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National Archives Base Docker Images

The National Archives base Docker images are designed to serve as a starting point for all containerised applications in The National Archives.

There are three main flavours of image:

• tna-python
• tna-python-django
• tna-python-dev

These base images:

• extend the official Python images
• include common tools used within TNA (Poetry, nvm, Gunicorn, Uvicorn)
• don't run as the root user
• work with the Python frameworks used within TNA (Flask, Django and FastAPI)
• contain healthcheck definitons
• work for a number of preset environments
• can be customised in terms of their thread counts, worker numbers, log levels etc.
• can build any NodeJS assets as part of their build process
• are linted with hadolint and shellcheck
• can start up development NodeJS scripts to build assets in the background