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+# Use vLLM's vllm-openai server image as the base
+FROM vllm/vllm-openai:v0.6.3.post1
+
+# Define a build argument for the working directory, defaulting to /workspace
+ARG WORKDIR_ARG=/workspace
+
+# Set the working directory
+WORKDIR ${WORKDIR_ARG}
+
+# Install necessary build dependencies for sentencepiece
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    pkg-config \
+    cmake \
+    build-essential
+
+# Copy functionary code and requirements into workspace
+COPY . .
+
+# Install additional Python dependencies
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip \
+    python3 -m pip install .[vllm]
+
+# Override the VLLM entrypoint with the functionary server
+ENTRYPOINT ["python3", "server_vllm.py", "--model", "meetkai/functionary-small-v3.2", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--max-model-len", "8192"]
+CMD []