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+# This dockerfile builds an image for the backend package.
+# It should be executed with the root of the repo as docker context.
+#
+# Before building this image, be sure to have run the following commands in the repo root:
+#
+# yarn install
+# yarn tsc
+# yarn build:backend
+#
+# Once the commands have been run, you can build the image using `yarn build-image`
+
+FROM cgr.dev/chainguard/wolfi-base:latest@sha256:3d6dece13cdb5546cd03b20e14f9af354bc1a56ab5a7b47dca3e6c1557211fcf
+
+ENV NODE_VERSION 20=~20.11
+ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.12=~3.12
+
+RUN apk add nodejs-$NODE_VERSION yarn
+
+# Install sqlite3 dependencies. You can skip this if you don't use sqlite3 in the image,
+# in which case you should also move better-sqlite3 to "devDependencies" in package.json.
+# Additionally, we install dependencies for `techdocs.generator.runIn: local`.
+# https://backstage.io/docs/features/techdocs/getting-started#disabling-docker-in-docker-situation-optional
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apk,sharing=locked \
+    --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apk,sharing=locked \
+    apk update && \
+    apk add sqlite-dev python-$PYTHON_VERSION py3-pip python-3-dev py3-setuptools build-base gcc libffi-dev glibc-dev openssl-dev brotli-dev c-ares-dev nghttp2-dev icu-dev zlib-dev gcc-12 libuv-dev && \
+    yarn config set python /usr/bin/python3
+
+# Set up a virtual environment for mkdocs-techdocs-core.
+ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/venv
+RUN python3 -m venv $VIRTUAL_ENV
+ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
+
+RUN pip3 install mkdocs-techdocs-core==1.3.3
+
+# From here on we use the least-privileged `node` user to run the backend.
+WORKDIR /app
+RUN chown nonroot:nonroot /app
+USER nonroot
+
+# This switches many Node.js dependencies to production mode.
+ENV NODE_ENV production
+
+# Copy over Yarn 3 configuration, release, and plugins
+COPY --chown=nonroot:nonroot .yarn ./.yarn
+COPY --chown=nonroot:nonroot .yarnrc.yml ./
+
+# Copy repo skeleton first, to avoid unnecessary docker cache invalidation.
+# The skeleton contains the package.json of each package in the monorepo,
+# and along with yarn.lock and the root package.json, that's enough to run yarn install.
+COPY --chown=nonroot:nonroot yarn.lock package.json packages/backend/dist/skeleton.tar.gz ./
+RUN tar xzf skeleton.tar.gz && rm skeleton.tar.gz
+
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/home/node/.yarn/berry/cache,sharing=locked,uid=1000,gid=1000 \
+    yarn workspaces focus --all --production
+
+# Then copy the rest of the backend bundle, along with any other files we might want.
+COPY --chown=nonroot:nonroot packages/backend/dist/bundle.tar.gz app-config*.yaml ./
+RUN tar xzf bundle.tar.gz && rm bundle.tar.gz
+
+CMD ["node", "packages/backend", "--config", "app-config.yaml"]
diff --git a/contrib/docker/secure-base-image/README.md b/contrib/docker/secure-base-image/README.md
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+# Secure Base Image for Backstage
+
+DockerHub images in general did not seem ideal for Backstage as the number of vulnerabilities were quite high regardless of the image used.
+
+The `Dockerfile` in this directory uses a [`wolfi-base`](https://github.com/wolfi-dev) image from Chainguard Images. This improves the security of the application and reduces false positives in scanners.