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+// integration tests are not needed in docker
+// ignoring it let us speed up the integration test
+// development
+integration_test.go
+
+Dockerfile*
+docker-compose*
+.dockerignore
+.goreleaser.yml
+.git
+.github
+.gitignore
+README.md
+LICENSE
+.vscode
+