image-spec VS ovh-ipxe-customer-script

A buildpack is a software, designed to transform application source code into executable (OCI) images that can run on a variety of cloud platforms. At its core, a buildpack is a directory that includes a specific file named buildpack.toml. This file contains metadata and configuration details that dictate how the buildpack should behave. Buildpacks in simple terms, is a set of standards defining how the different steps that are required to build a compliant container image can be automated. Using those standards, there are projects that have been built round enabling that using an CLI or an API. The most common way of doing that is through the Cloud Native Buildpacks' Pack project. Pack is a CLI command that can run in the same system the developers are using to actually go through creating a Dockerfile.

Eventually, once zstd support gets fully supported, and tiny gzip compression windows are not a limitation, then compressing a full layer would almost certainly have a better ratio over several smaller layers

https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/issues/803

Please note that label-schema has been superseded by https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/main/annotations.md<^

GitHub Container Registry stores container images within your organization or personal account, and allows you to associate an image with a repository. It currently supports both the Docker Image Manifest V2, Schema 2 and Open Container Initiative (OCI) specifications.

We build all services as containerized workloads, i.e., OCI images - sometimes called Docker images. We deploy these to the Kubernetes product offered by the cloud vendor. Whenever we need some capability, containers are the answer. This insulates our applications from the vendor. In principle, we could switch providers as long as Kubernetes is available.

Build images with anything that makes OCI compliant images, push, and profit.

it's funny that you mention this because it is actually the thing that is next on my agenda for the image, as you can probably see already I bake in OCI image annotations in our image, which is great for including some core pieces of meta data. In addition to this though I will soon be including custom labels for Base64 encoded YAMLs for Kubernetes deployments using this image. I will look at including helm configuration as well. Then it should be just as easy as: $ docker pull registry.gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-4:latest $ docker image inspect registry.gitlab.com/crafty-controller/crafty-4:latest | jq -r ".[].Config.Labels.\"org.arcadiatech.crafty.k8s.deployment\"" | base64 -d | kubectl apply -f -

They still don't do anything really of substance, they're just gateways to their vendor's world - booking systems, payment systems, etc. You learn those as you go along. Yes, as a potential employee, you need to be able to tick those boxes on your CV, but if you understand the underlying technology, it's mostly a matter of booking your own AWS or Azure server for $5-10 a month for a few weeks, and fooling around. (Docker is a bit different in the sense that they were the first to popularize today's de-facto container image standard, the "Docker container", which has since been accepted as a proper standard and renamed to "OCI image format"; but at the end of the day, at this point in time, Docker in itself is still just a company out for the money, and the multi-GB installation of their product can, for the essential functionality part, be replaced by a few hundred lines of Bash code. The cool boys today don't use Docker, they use [Podman(https://podman.io/), which is essentially a much more lightweight drop-in replacement ;-) )

Alpine is one of the unsung heroes of the container world. It's insane how much value Natanael Copa has shepherded over the years (decades?). Recently came upon an interview with him and it was the first time I saw the creator behind Alpine Linux[0].

Thank you for those links, I am about to gobble up those blog posts -- I recently went on a benchmarking kick[1] and diskless alpine instantly struck me as the perfect server setup. ECC memory + running from ram would give me full use (to put in RAID/whatever else) of the NVMe drives, it's something I'm going to try out as soon as I get a chance to.

I am so interested in the infrastructure space, I know exactly two hosting providers that will give me PXE level access (so I could use something like tinkerbell[2]):

- OVH [3][4]

- Vultr[5]

- LeaseWeb[6]

Unfortunately my personal favorite hosting provider, Hetzner[7] (I fell in love the moment I came across the robot marketplace) does not offer it yet, though I've automated going through their rescue system at this point so it's OK.

[0]: https://www.tfir.io/meet-the-creator-of-alpine-linux-natanae...

[1]: https://vadosware.io/post/k8s-storage-provider-benchmarks-ro...

[2]: https://docs.tinkerbell.org/

[3]: https://github.com/gmasse/ovh-ipxe-customer-script

[4]: https://geekgonecrazy.com/2020/09/07/tinkerbell-or-ipxe-boot...

[5]: https://www.vultr.com/docs/ipxe-boot-feature

[6]: https://kb.leaseweb.com/products/dedicated-server/installing...

[7]: https://www.hetzner.com