diff --git a/freechat-pipeline/Dockerfile b/freechat-pipeline/Dockerfile
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+# This docker image is used for building Freechat in Gitlab pipelines
+# WARN: this image uses a lot of "lazy" practices in terms of security as its
+# not at all meant to be ran in a production environment. Attempts to use this 
+# a "production/live" are not recommended
+
+FROM rust:slim-buster
+
+# required for building rust things and grabbing node
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install \
+	git default-libmysqlclient-dev pkg-config \
+	curl libssl-dev ca-certificates gnupg procps \
+	-y --no-install-recommends 
+
+
+# Setup node
+# grab key
+RUN curl -sSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add -
+# add binary & source ppa
+RUN echo "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x sid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
+RUN echo "deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x sid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install nodejs \
+	-y --no-install-recommends
+
+# Next we install diesel for easily setting up the database tables
+RUN cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features mysql
+
+# Now comes the painful part of setting mysql itself
+# Database user will be 'admin'@'localhost' identified by 'password'
+# Database name is 'freechat'
+# Tables should be setup for us by diesel
+# Also I'm using expect because of the amount of interactive prompts in the way
+RUN apt-get install curl expect \
+	-y --no-install-recommends
+
+RUN mkdir /opt/mysql-setup
+RUN curl "https://repo.mysql.com//mysql-apt-config_0.8.17-1_all.deb" \
+	-o /opt/mysql-setup/mysql-apt-config_0.8.17-1_all.deb
+RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
+	apt-get update && \
+	apt-get install /opt/mysql-setup/mysql-apt-config_0.8.17-1_all.deb \
+	-y --no-install-recommends 
+
+# Use the newly installed mysql packages to install the server component
+RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
+	apt-get update && \
+	apt-get install mysql-community-client mysql-community-server \
+	-y --no-install-recommends 
+
+
+# Clean up from the apt-gets and things we don't do this 
+RUN apt-get remove curl gnupg ca-certificates -y # will go unused in regular builds
+RUN apt-get autoremove -y
+RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Start the mysql service
+COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
+
diff --git a/freechat-pipeline/entrypoint.sh b/freechat-pipeline/entrypoint.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+echo Starting mysql server in background
+mysqld --user=root --daemonize&
+echo Starting shell
+bash