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+# Grafana dashboard sidecar - watches ConfigMaps and syncs into Grafana
+# Two-stage build: Python venv (builder), runtime (Alpine)
+
+ARG CONTAINER_APP_VERSION=1.28.0
+
+FROM python:3.12-alpine3.22 AS base
+
+FROM base AS builder
+ARG CONTAINER_APP_VERSION
+WORKDIR /app
+RUN apk add --no-cache git gcc musl-dev
+RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch ${CONTAINER_APP_VERSION} \
+    https://forge.ops.eblu.me/mirrors/kiwigrid-grafana-sidecar.git /tmp/k8s-sidecar
+RUN python -m venv .venv && \
+    .venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools && \
+    .venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/k8s-sidecar/src/requirements.txt && \
+    cp /tmp/k8s-sidecar/src/*.py /app/ && \
+    find /app/.venv \( -type d -a -name test -o -name tests \) \
+      -o \( -type f -a -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) -exec rm -rf '{}' \+
+
+FROM base
+
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="Grafana Sidecar"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="K8s sidecar to sync ConfigMap dashboards into Grafana"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/kiwigrid/k8s-sidecar"
+
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --from=builder /app /app
+ENV PATH="/app/.venv/bin:$PATH"
+
+USER 65534:65534
+CMD ["python", "-u", "/app/sidecar.py"]