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-# stage 1 Generate celestia-appd Binary
-FROM docker.io/golang:1.20.6-alpine3.17 as builder
-
-RUN apk update && \
-    apk upgrade && \
-    apk --no-cache add make gcc musl-dev
-
-ENV HOME /celestia-app
-
-COPY / ${HOME}
-WORKDIR ${HOME}
-
-RUN make build
-
-# stage 2
-FROM docker.io/alpine:3.18.2
-
-RUN apk update && \
-    apk upgrade && \
-    apk --no-cache add curl jq bash
-
-ENV HOME /celestia-app
-COPY --from=builder ${HOME}/build/celestia-appd ${HOME}/celestia-appd
-COPY docker/priv_validator_state.json ${HOME}/data/priv_validator_state.json
-WORKDIR $HOME
-
-# p2p, rpc and prometheus port
-EXPOSE 26656 26657 1317 9090
-
-# This allows us to always set the --home directory using an env
-# var while still capturing all arguments passed at runtime
-ENTRYPOINT [ "/bin/bash", "-c", "exec ./celestia-appd \
-    --home ${HOME} \
-    \"${@}\"", "--" ]
-
-RUN adduser -D -u 1000 celestia \
-    && chown -R celestia:celestia /opt
-
-USER celestia
-
-# Default command to run if no arguments are passed
-CMD ["--help"]