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+# # Build the manager binary
+# FROM golang:1.18 as builder
+
+# WORKDIR /workspace
+# # Copy the Go Modules manifests
+# COPY go.mod go.mod
+# COPY go.sum go.sum
+# # cache deps before building and copying source so that we don't need to re-download as much
+# # and so that source changes don't invalidate our downloaded layer
+# RUN go mod download
+
+# # Copy the go source
+# COPY main.go main.go
+# COPY api/ api/
+# COPY controllers/ controllers/
+
+# # Build
+# RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -a -o manager main.go
+
+# # Use distroless as minimal base image to package the manager binary
+# # Refer to https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless for more details
+FROM gcr.io/distroless/static:nonroot
+ARG TARGETARCH
+WORKDIR /
+COPY manager_${TARGETARCH} manager
+USER 65532:65532
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/manager"]