Change base image to debian

[soedar]

Description

Changed the base image from ubuntu:22.04 to debian:12

Motivation and Context

puppeter is one of the dependency of aiverify, and require the installation of chromium as its dependency. However, puppeter currently does not support the installation of chromium on amd64 platform (See https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/7740). This means that we would need to install chromium manually on the operating system level, which should install the appropriate binary based on the arch.

Unfortunately, ubuntu currently uses snap to install chromium browser on amd64. Clearly, we would not be able to use snap in the context of a docker build.

Currently, the implementation uses ubuntu as a base image, but uses the debian repo to install chromium (debian provides a amd64 arch build of chromium). However, this may result slightly different versions of the other packages, which may lead to inconsistent builds. Crucially, we now need to be careful of the order which we install packages; some packages may need to be installed before/after adding the debian repos.

Since ubuntu and debian are fairly close, we can explore the use of debian as a base image instead.

Type of Change

• other: Other changes that don't fit into the above categories

How to Test

I've tested the build and am able to run the portal/test-engine services. However, I'm not sure if existing functionalities may be affected. Would appreciate help in verifying that the change did not introduce any regressions.

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Additional Notes

Python3.11

debian:12 currently has the python3.11 packages. The build now uses the debian packages, instead of the ppa:deadsnakes/ppa ppa

Do note that the ppa:deadsnakes/ppa ppa is meant for ubuntu, and is not supported on debian. This means that in future, there may be additional changes if there is a need to use a newer version of python than is provided by the debian repo.

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