release notes update

Dockerfile

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+# This line tells Docker to base an image on a pre-built image with Alpine Linux. You can use other images from OpenJDK
+# registry. Alpine Linux benefit is that the image is pretty small. We also select JRE-only image since we don't need
+# to compile code on the image, only run precompiled classes.
+FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine
+
+ENV APPLICATION_USER ktor
+RUN adduser -D -g '' $APPLICATION_USER
+
+RUN mkdir /app
+RUN chown -R $APPLICATION_USER /app
+
+USER $APPLICATION_USER
+
+# These lines copy the packaged application into the Docker image and sets the working directory to where it was copied.
+COPY ./build/libs/my-application.jar /app/my-application.jar
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# The last line instructs Docker to run java with G10s GC, 4G of memory and the packaged application.
+CMD ["java", "-server", "-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions", "-XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap", "-XX:InitialRAMFraction=2", "-XX:MinRAMFraction=2", "-XX:MaxRAMFraction=2", "-XX:+UseG1GC", "-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=100", "-XX:+UseStringDeduplication", "-jar", "my-application.jar"]

RELEASE_NOTES.md

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 * Added gradle task to provide release version to pipelines
+* Cleaned up Application boot methods
+* Added default dev deployment with option to set environment variable to deploy different configs
+* Cleaned up documentation in Ktor files