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+FROM tiangolo/uvicorn-gunicorn:python3.8
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+LABEL maintainer="Christian Böttcher <c.boettcher@fz-juelich.de>"
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+RUN apt update && apt upgrade -y
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+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir fastapi
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+COPY ./api-server.py /app/main.py
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