Opinionated preferences for container builds and CI pipelines.
# Dockerfile and CI taste - Use multi-stage builds and ship only the runtime artifacts in the final stage. Confidence: 0.95 - Pin base images to a specific version tag, and to a digest for production. Confidence: 0.90 - Prefer slim or distroless final images over full OS images. Confidence: 0.85 - Run the container as a non-root user. Confidence: 0.95 - Order layers so dependency manifests are copied and installed before source code. Confidence: 0.95 - Always keep a .dockerignore that excludes node_modules, .git and local env files. Confidence: 0.95 - Add a HEALTHCHECK or an equivalent readiness probe. Confidence: 0.80 - Use BuildKit cache mounts for package manager caches. Confidence: 0.80 - Never bake secrets into images; pass them at runtime or use build secrets. Confidence: 0.95 - Use exec-form CMD so the process receives signals correctly. Confidence: 0.90 - Scan images with Trivy in CI and fail on critical vulnerabilities. Confidence: 0.80 - Cache dependencies in GitHub Actions keyed on the lockfile hash. Confidence: 0.85 - Run lint, type check and tests as separate parallel CI jobs. Confidence: 0.80 - Tag images with the git SHA and never rely on the latest tag for deploys. Confidence: 0.90 - Keep workflows short and move repeated steps into reusable workflows. Confidence: 0.70
