Why do I suck at Dockerfiles?

.drone.yml

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ steps:
   commands:
   - yarn set version stable
   - yarn install
+  - yarn build:production
   volumes:
   - name: yarnrc
     path: /drone/auth/.yarnrc.yml
@@ -125,7 +126,9 @@ steps:
     repo: git.mifi.dev/mifi/auth-service
     registry: git.mifi.dev
     build_args:
-      NPM_TOKEN:
+      - MONGO_ENTRY_FILE=latest
+      - MONGO_VERSION=latest
+      - NPM_TOKEN:
         from_secret: reg_token
     ssh-agent-key:
       from_secret: reg_token    

Dockerfile

@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ ARG MONGO_ENTRY_FILE=${MONGO_VERSION:-latest}
 ARG MONGO_VERSION=${MONGO_VERSION:-latest}
 
 ## mongo build stage
-FROM mongo:$MONGO_VERSION AS database
-ENV NODE_ENV $ENV
-COPY docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mongo-init-$MONGO_ENTRY_FILE.sh ./docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mongo-init.sh
+FROM mongo:${MONGO_VERSION} AS database
+ENV NODE_ENV=${ENV}
+ARG MONGO_ENTRY_FILE=${MONGO_ENTRY_FILE}
+ENV MONGO_VERSION=${MONGO_VERSION}
+COPY docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mongo-init-${MONGO_ENTRY_FILE}.sh ./docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mongo-init.sh
 
 ## stage one, build the service
 FROM node:20-bullseye-slim AS build
-ENV YARN_VERSION $YARN_VERSION
-ENV NODE_ENV development
-ENV NPM_TOKEN $NPM_TOKEN
+ENV YARN_VERSION=${YARN_VERSION}
+ENV NODE_ENV=development
+ENV NPM_TOKEN=${NPM_TOKEN}
 WORKDIR /home/node/app
 COPY .npmrc /root
 COPY .build.yarnrc.yml /root/.yarnrc.yml
@@ -24,9 +26,9 @@ RUN yarn build:production
 
 ## this is stage two , where the app actually runs
 FROM node:20-bullseye-slim AS containerize
-ENV YARN_VERSION $YARN_VERSION
-ENV NODE_ENV $ENV
-ENV NPM_TOKEN $NPM_TOKEN
+ENV YARN_VERSION=${YARN_VERSION}
+ENV NODE_ENV=${ENV}
+ENV NPM_TOKEN=${NPM_TOKEN}
 WORKDIR /home/node/app
 COPY .npmrc /root
 COPY .build.yarnrc.yml /root/.yarnrc.yml

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@mifi/auth-service",
-  "version": "1.0.6",
+  "version": "1.0.11",
   "author": "mifi (Mike Fitzpatrick)",
   "license": "MIT",
   "scripts": {