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-# The route proxy, as a module ships one.
-#
-# Static and FROM scratch like the control plane's image, and for the same reason: it is fetched
-# by digest and run on a machine, so everything in it is something a person would have to audit.
-# The Go it builds with is the one the manifest pins (build.on GO_BASE), passed by the Makefile and the
-# build machine alike; the default only serves a hand build, and matches go.mod.
-ARG GO_BASE=golang:1.26-alpine
-FROM ${GO_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /src
-COPY go.mod go.sum ./
-RUN go mod download
-COPY . .
-RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -buildvcs=false -ldflags '-s -w' -o /mesh-route-proxy ./examples/route-proxy
-
-FROM scratch
-COPY --from=build /mesh-route-proxy /mesh-route-proxy
-ENTRYPOINT ["/mesh-route-proxy"]