Apologies for the variegated nature of this PR. A better way to go would have likely been to split this work into a few different PRs. Instead what happened (I think, but @OrlandoSoto could say for sure) is that the initial work on getting the app to run in containers surfaced some significant bitrot that required upgrades to dependencies and other miscellaneous tweaks. Not too surprising since this hasn't been touched in a long time. But that in turn led to changes having to be made to the application code itself to maintain compatibility with the newer deps. So we have a real mix of commits here, and most of them are peripheral to the core work: the addition of the three Dockerfiles and the docker-compose.yml.
Apologies for the variegated nature of this PR. A better way to go would have likely been to split this work into a few different PRs. Instead what happened (I think, but @OrlandoSoto could say for sure) is that the initial work on getting the app to run in containers surfaced some significant bitrot that required upgrades to dependencies and other miscellaneous tweaks. Not too surprising since this hasn't been touched in a long time. But that in turn led to changes having to be made to the application code itself to maintain compatibility with the newer deps. So we have a real mix of commits here, and most of them are peripheral to the core work: the addition of the three
Dockerfiles and thedocker-compose.yml.