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[WIP] lsif: use proper sourcegraph/alpine base image

Administrator requested to merge sg/lsif-dockerfile into master

Created by: slimsag

Prior to this change, lsif-server was not using our sourcegraph/alpine base image. Using this base image and not standard alpine is very important for three reasons:

  1. It installs a critical package without which DNS lookups fail in certain deployment contexts.
  2. It creates a standard sourcegraph user with a static UID/GID, which is important for deploy-sourcegraph-docker deployment contexts where file permissions must sometimes be set manually on the host.
  3. It unifies the base image of alpine and packages we install across all services, e.g. tini.

Additionally, because lsif-server had no user before, it was being ran as root and all of its files are owned by root in Kubernetes deployments. I will send a pair change with this one to automatically update the permissions in such clusters.

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