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Use ADD to download Windows dockerfile dependencies

Arran Walker requested to merge ajwalker/fix-docker-windows-downloads into main

What does this MR do?

Uses the Dockerfile ADD command to download and add needed dependencies.

Why was this MR needed?

Using Invoke-Webrequest to GitHub inside the build container would result in a DNS error where "github.com" could not be resolved.

We suspected this might be due to our infrastructure having a mismatching MTU configured. But correcting this didn't improve matters.

Reaching out to GCP they said the following:

Thank you for contacting Google Cloud Support. I can understand that you are getting the intermittent DNS failures error [1] with Windows VMs on Docker. Please correct me and let me know if I misunderstood or missed anything.
 
Thanks for providing the detailed information regarding the issue,
 
Please note that Internal OS issues on docker containers are out of scope of GCP support. I will try to help you the best I can, but this is outside my scope of expertise and the assistance I can offer is limited and support will be provided on a best effort basis. 
 
However, Based on my investigation on public Internet docs [2-8], It seems to be a known issue for windows on docker containers.

So for the next step to resolve the issue, kindly follow the provided solutions on these docs. 

I hope you find this information helpful. If you have any other questions/Concerns or if you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to help.

Thanks and Regards,

Kamran
Google Cloud Support, Montreal
Working Hours: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM EST.

[1]: Invoke-Webrequest : The remote name could not be resolved: 'github.com'
At line:1 char:255
+ ... pe]::Tls12; Invoke-Webrequest https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/ ...
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57073089/docker-build-failed-for-invokewebrequest
[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71213490/invoke-webrequest-the-remote-name-could-not-be-resolved-http
[4]: https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues?q=%22The+remote+name+could+not+be+resolved%22
[5]: https://github.com/jadesoftwarenz/JADE-container-examples/issues/1
[6]: https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/427
[7]: https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/6453
[8]: https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-dns-not-responding-from-inside-a-container/103982

So we don't know how to fix this but ADD works for now.

What's the best way to test this MR?

Pipeline ✅

What are the relevant issue numbers?

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