Ignore pidfile when running in Docker#1212
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The application normally writes the process PID to
/MapRouletteAPI/RUNNING_PID, and refuses to start when that file exists (to ensure only a single copy is running at a time).However, this is annoying when running the backend in a container, where the orchestrator (Docker daemon, Kubernetes, etc) already ensures that only one instance is running per namespace. If the application crashes without cleaning up the RUNNING_PID file, then it will refuse to launch when the orchestrator restarts it. Depending on the deploy configuration, this may require a human to intervene by deleting the container before restarting the service.
To fix this, this PR makes the container image ignore the pidfile by default.