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-#
-# BUILDER
-#
-FROM docker.io/rust:1.62-buster as builder
-WORKDIR /vector
-ARG VECTOR_FEATURES
-# RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install build-essential cmake libclang-dev libsasl2-dev
-COPY . .
-RUN cargo build --release --package soak --bin observer --no-default-features
-
-#
-# TARGET
-#
-FROM gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian11
-COPY --from=builder /vector/target/release/observer /usr/bin/observer
-
-# Smoke test
-RUN ["observer", "--help"]
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/observer"]