actual change

Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <[email protected]>

example-apps/chatbot-rag-app/Dockerfile

@@ -5,24 +5,25 @@ COPY frontend ./frontend
 RUN cd frontend && yarn install
 RUN cd frontend && REACT_APP_API_HOST=/api yarn build
 
-FROM python:3.12-slim
+# Use an alpine image to make the runtime smaller
+FROM python:3.12-alpine
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+    # grpcio, a dependency of vertexai.
+    linux-headers g++ \
+    # shapely, a dependency of vertexai.
+    geos \
+    # tiktoken, used in index_data.py for encoding.
+    rust cargo
 
 WORKDIR /app
 RUN mkdir -p ./frontend/build
 COPY --from=build-step ./app/frontend/build ./frontend/build
-RUN mkdir ./api
-RUN mkdir ./data
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
-    build-essential \
-    curl \
-    software-properties-common \
-    git \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
 
 COPY requirements.txt ./requirements.txt
 RUN pip3 install -r ./requirements.txt
+
+RUN mkdir -p ./api ./data
 COPY api ./api
 COPY data ./data