# ── Stage 1: install production dependencies ────────────────────────────────── # node:20-alpine is used only for npm ci; it never ships to production. FROM node:20-alpine AS deps WORKDIR /app # package-lock.json* — the wildcard makes the COPY succeed even if the lock # file is absent, so the image can be built from a clean checkout without any # local Node installation. COPY package.json package-lock.json* ./ RUN if [ -f package-lock.json ]; then npm ci --omit=dev; else npm install --omit=dev; fi # ── Stage 2: hardened, minimal runtime ──────────────────────────────────────── # gcr.io/distroless/nodejs20-debian12:nonroot contains only the Node runtime. # No shell, no package manager, no OS utilities → drastically reduced attack # surface and near-zero CVEs from OS packages. Runs as uid 65532 (nonroot). FROM gcr.io/distroless/nodejs20-debian12:nonroot WORKDIR /app COPY --from=deps /app/node_modules ./node_modules # Copy application source COPY server ./server COPY public ./public COPY config ./config ENV NODE_ENV=production ENV PORT=8080 EXPOSE 8080 # Health-check: no wget/curl in distroless — use the bundled Node binary # directly via exec form (no shell needed). HEALTHCHECK --interval=15s --timeout=5s --start-period=30s --retries=3 \ CMD ["/nodejs/bin/node", "server/healthcheck.js"] # The distroless ENTRYPOINT is already /nodejs/bin/node; CMD is the argument. CMD ["server/index.js"]