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@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+**/target/
+Dockerfile
diff --git a/template/Dockerfile b/template/Dockerfile
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+# Note: This is currently designed to simplify development
+# To get a smaller docker image, there should be 2 images generated, in 2 stages.
+
+FROM rustlang/rust:nightly
+
+
+ARG PROFILE=release
+WORKDIR /frontier
+
+# Upcd dates core parts
+RUN apt-get update -y && \
+	apt-get install -y cmake pkg-config libssl-dev git gcc build-essential clang libclang-dev
+
+# Install rust wasm. Needed for substrate wasm engine
+RUN rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
+
+# Download Frontier repo
+RUN git clone https://github.com/paritytech/frontier /frontier
+RUN cd /frontier && git submodule init && git submodule update
+
+# Download rust dependencies and build the rust binary
+RUN cargo build "--$PROFILE"
+
+# 30333 for p2p traffic
+# 9933 for RPC call
+# 9944 for Websocket
+# 9615 for Prometheus (metrics)
+EXPOSE 30333 9933 9944 9615
+
+
+ENV PROFILE ${PROFILE}
+
+# The execution will re-compile the project to run it
+# This allows to modify the code and not have to re-compile the
+# dependencies.
+CMD cargo run "--$PROFILE" -- --dev
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@@ -20,6 +20,22 @@ To execute the chain, run:
 $ ./target/debug/frontier-template-node --dev
 ```
 
+### Docker image
+
+You can run the frontier node (for development) within Docker directly.  
+The Dockerfile is optimized for development speed.  
+(Running the `docker run...` command will recompile the binaries but not the dependencies)
+
+Building (takes 5-10 min):
+```bash
+docker build -t frontier-node-dev .
+```
+
+Running (takes 1 min to rebuild binaries):
+```bash
+docker run -t frontier-node-dev
+```
+
 ## Genesis Configuration
 
 The development [chain spec](/src/chain_spec.rs) included with this project defines a genesis block that has been pre-configured with an EVM account for [Alice](https://substrate.dev/docs/en/next/development/tools/subkey#well-known-keys). When [a development chain is started](https://github.com/substrate-developer-hub/substrate-node-template#run), Alice's EVM account will be funded with a large amount of Ether (`U256::MAX`).