Publish base docker images

[James-Quigley]

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Tell us about your request

It would be useful for local development purposes to have the same environment as within App Runner. AWS should publish the base images that they use for their build environments.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've briefly tried to download the image directly from ECR without success

Additional context

A Node.js dependency that compiles with node-gyp is failing to build within App Runner, but works fine locally.

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[cade-coreschedule]

This is a very high value feature. We're facing issues with building images fine locally, but failing in App Runner with no log/troubleshooting beyond "service failed to start". Coupled with #49 it makes it a headache to convert from a code-based App Runner service to an image based service. Having one or more of the following would make this infinitely better:

1. Have the build images publicly available
2. Have the runtime images publicly available
3. Better default logging output when deploying an image to App Runner (why don't we see stderr or stdout?)
4. #49 to support faster troubleshooting