feat: complete dockerization architecture with data/logs persistence and prod export script v1.3.0

backend/Dockerfile

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+FROM python:3.12-slim
+
+# Install system dependencies required for python-ldap (needed by backend)
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    build-essential \
+    libldap2-dev \
+    libsasl2-dev \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# Copy requirements and install
+COPY backend/requirements.txt .
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+
+# Create non-root user
+RUN adduser --system --group appuser
+
+# Copy application files
+COPY backend ./backend
+
+# We define the data dir explicitly for Docker
+ENV DATA_DIR="/app/data"
+ENV LOGS_DIR="/app/logs"
+
+# Ensure the appuser can write to data and logs if we pre-create them, 
+# although Docker volumes will handle ownership context.
+RUN mkdir -p /app/data /app/logs && chown -R appuser:appuser /app
+
+USER appuser
+
+EXPOSE 8000
+
+# Start Uvicorn pointing to the backend module
+CMD ["python", "-m", "uvicorn", "backend.main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8000"]