added auto-generated stuff from vs code, not sure if it works yet but it looks good.

.dockerignore

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+**/__pycache__
+**/.classpath
+**/.dockerignore
+**/.env
+**/.git
+**/.gitignore
+**/.project
+**/.settings
+**/.toolstarget
+**/.vs
+**/.vscode
+**/*.*proj.user
+**/*.dbmdl
+**/*.jfm
+**/azds.yaml
+**/bin
+**/charts
+**/docker-compose*
+**/compose*
+**/Dockerfile*
+**/node_modules
+**/npm-debug.log
+**/obj
+**/secrets.dev.yaml
+**/values.dev.yaml
+README.md

.vscode/launch.json

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+{
+    "configurations": [
+        {
+            "name": "Docker: Python - Flask",
+            "type": "docker",
+            "request": "launch",
+            "preLaunchTask": "docker-run: debug",
+            "python": {
+                "pathMappings": [
+                    {
+                        "localRoot": "${workspaceFolder}",
+                        "remoteRoot": "/app"
+                    }
+                ],
+                "projectType": "flask"
+            }
+        }
+    ]
+}

.vscode/tasks.json

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+{
+	"version": "2.0.0",
+	"tasks": [
+		{
+			"type": "docker-build",
+			"label": "docker-build",
+			"platform": "python",
+			"dockerBuild": {
+				"tag": "simpleblogapi:latest",
+				"dockerfile": "${workspaceFolder}/Dockerfile",
+				"context": "${workspaceFolder}",
+				"pull": true
+			}
+		},
+		{
+			"type": "docker-run",
+			"label": "docker-run: debug",
+			"dependsOn": [
+				"docker-build"
+			],
+			"dockerRun": {
+				"env": {
+					"FLASK_APP": "wsgi.py"
+				}
+			},
+			"python": {
+				"args": [
+					"run",
+					"--no-debugger",
+					"--no-reload",
+					"--host",
+					"0.0.0.0",
+					"--port",
+					"5000"
+				],
+				"module": "flask"
+			}
+		}
+	]
+}

Dockerfile

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-FROM python:3.8
+# For more information, please refer to https://aka.ms/vscode-docker-python
+FROM python:3.8-slim-buster
 
-RUN pip3 install pipenv gunicorn
+EXPOSE 5000
 
-ENV PROJECT_DIR /usr/src/simpleblogapi
+# Keeps Python from generating .pyc files in the container
+ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 
-WORKDIR ${PROJECT_DIR}
+# Turns off buffering for easier container logging
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 
+# Install pip requirements
 COPY Pipfile .
 COPY Pipfile.lock .
-COPY . .
-
 RUN pipenv install --deploy --ignore-pipfile
 
-EXPOSE 5400
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY . /app
 
+# Creates a non-root user with an explicit UID and adds permission to access the /app folder
+# For more info, please refer to https://aka.ms/vscode-docker-python-configure-containers
+RUN adduser -u 5678 --disabled-password --gecos "" appuser && chown -R appuser /app
+USER appuser
+
+# During debugging, this entry point will be overridden. For more information, please refer to https://aka.ms/vscode-docker-python-debug
 CMD ["gunicorn", "-c", "gunicorn_config.py", "wsgi:api"]

docker-compose.debug.yml

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+version: '3.4'
+
+services:
+  simpleblogapi:
+    image: simpleblogapi
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
+    command: ["sh", "-c", "pip install debugpy -t /tmp && python /tmp/debugpy --wait-for-client --listen 0.0.0.0:5678 -m flask run --no-debugger --no-reload --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5000"]
+    ports:
+      - 5000:5000
+      - 5678:5678
+    environment:
+      - FLASK_APP=wsgi.py

docker-compose.yml

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+version: '3.4'
+
+services:
+  simpleblogapi:
+    image: simpleblogapi
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
+    ports:
+      - 5000:5000

gunicorn_config.py

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 # to run:  gunicorn -c gunicorn_config.py wsgi:api
 
-bind = "0.0.0.0:5400"
+bind = "0.0.0.0:5000"
 workers = 2

requirements.txt

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+# To ensure app dependencies are ported from your virtual environment/host machine into your container, run 'pip freeze > requirements.txt' in the terminal to overwrite this file
+flask==1.1.2
+gunicorn==20.0.4
 aniso8601==9.0.1
 beautifulsoup4==4.9.3
 click==8.0.1
-Flask==2.0.1
 Flask-RESTful==0.3.9
-gunicorn==20.1.0
 itsdangerous==2.0.1
 Jinja2==3.0.1
 Markdown==3.3.4
@@ -11,4 +12,3 @@ MarkupSafe==2.0.1
 pytz==2021.1
 six==1.16.0
 soupsieve==2.2.1
-Werkzeug==2.0.1