-
-COPY . /tmp
-WORKDIR /tmp
-
-# copy NNG out of the CI builder nng
-COPY --from=nexus3.o-ran-sc.org:10004/bldr-debian-python-nng:2-py3.7-nng1.1.1 /usr/local/lib/libnng.so /usr/local/lib/libnng.so
-
-# Installs RMr using debian package hosted at packagecloud.io
-RUN wget --content-disposition https://packagecloud.io/o-ran-sc/master/packages/debian/stretch/rmr_1.0.36_amd64.deb/download.deb
-RUN dpkg -i rmr_1.0.36_amd64.deb
-
-# Install RMr python bindings
-RUN pip install --upgrade pip
-RUN pip install rmr==0.10.1
-
-# install a1
-
-# Prereq for unit tests
-RUN pip install tox
-RUN tox
-
-# do the actual install
-RUN pip install .
-EXPOSE 10000
-
-# rmr setups
+# This container uses a 2 stage build!
+# Tips and tricks were learned from: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/multi-stage-docker-python/
+FROM python:3.8-alpine AS compile-image
+# Gevent needs gcc, make, file, ffi
+RUN apk update && apk add gcc musl-dev make file libffi-dev
+
+# Switch to a non-root user for security reasons
+# This is only really needed in stage 2 however this makes the copying easier and straitforward! --user doesn't do the same thing if run as root!
+RUN addgroup -S a1user && adduser -S -G a1user a1user
+USER a1user
+
+# Speed hack; we install gevent FIRST because when building repeatedly (eg during dev) and only changing a1 code, we do not need to keep compiling gevent which takes forever
+RUN pip install --upgrade pip && pip install --user gevent
+COPY setup.py /home/a1user/
+COPY a1/ /home/a1user/a1
+RUN pip install --user /home/a1user
+
+###########
+# 2nd stage
+FROM python:3.8-alpine
+# dir that rmr routing file temp goes into