Moar fixes

app/Dockerfile

@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 FROM python:3.11-slim
 
-# Keep python fast and quiet, and pip lean
+# Keep python fast/quiet and pip lean
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
     PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
-    PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=1
+    PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=1 \
+    LANG=C.UTF-8 \
+    LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 \
+    # sensible defaults (can be overridden by .env)
+    WHISPER_MODEL=large-v3 \
+    WHISPER_PRECISION=int8
 
-# System deps (ffmpeg for media, jq for scripts, poppler-utils for PDFs, curl for healthcheck)
+# System deps: ffmpeg for media, curl for healthcheck, jq for scripts, poppler-utils for PDFs
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     ffmpeg \
     curl \
@@ -15,18 +20,18 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
-# Upgrade pip first, then install deps
+# Upgrade pip toolchain then install Python deps
 COPY requirements.txt .
-RUN python -m pip install --upgrade pip \
- && pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt \
+RUN python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel \ 
+ && pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt \ 
  && pip check || true
 
 # App code
 COPY app.py worker.py ./
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir gunicorn==22.0.0
 
-# Basic container health check (relies on curl)
-HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --retries=3 CMD curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:8080/ || exit 1
+# Healthcheck against the app's /health endpoint
+HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --retries=3 CMD curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:8080/health || exit 1
 
 EXPOSE 8080
 CMD ["gunicorn", "-b", "0.0.0.0:8080", "app:app", "--workers", "2", "--threads", "4"]