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+/docs/
+Dockerfile
+*.md
+.git
+/app/target/
+/common/target/
+/dhis/target/
+/fhir/target/
+/fhir-dstu3/target/
+/fhir-r4/target/
+/metadata-sheet/target/
+/summary/target/
+/.idea/
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+FROM maven:3-openjdk-8-slim AS build
+WORKDIR /tmp/dhis2-fhir-adapter
+ARG DHIS2_HOME=/app
+
+COPY . /tmp/dhis2-fhir-adapter
+
+# create package
+RUN mvn clean package -DskipTests
+
+# create DHIS2_HOME/services/fhir-adapter configuration folder here https://github.com/opensrp/dhis2-fhir-adapter#configuration
+RUN mkdir -p ${DHIS2_HOME}/services/fhir-adapter \
+    && cp /tmp/dhis2-fhir-adapter/app/target/dhis2-fhir-adapter.war ${DHIS2_HOME}/main.war
+
+FROM openjdk:8-jdk-slim AS deploy
+
+# specify the DHIS2_HOME environment variable
+ENV DHIS2_HOME=/app
+
+# create opensrp user
+ARG UID=10001
+ARG GID=${UID}
+RUN groupadd -g ${GID} opensrp \
+    && useradd -u ${UID} -g ${GID} opensrp
+
+COPY --chown=opensrp:opensrp --from=build ${DHIS2_HOME} ${DHIS2_HOME}
+
+USER opensrp
+
+WORKDIR ${DHIS2_HOME}
+
+CMD java -jar ${DHIS2_HOME}/main.war