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6 | 122 | |
1,965 | 17,645 | |
1.1% | 1.8% | |
6.9 | 9.3 | |
7 days ago | 8 days ago | |
Shell | Starlark | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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minideb
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Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)
postgres:15-bullseye 2bb008a38e7c 379MB
[1] https://github.com/bitnami/minideb
However, it is sometimes a good idea to benchmark the speed of different images, as sometimes a significant speed loss is possible.
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I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works
as is stated initially, that goes back to how bitnami is building its Docker images, basing on a set of debian packages (minideb) - there's also a shell library/framework embedded that does useful things, but that makes you read more code when you go check how the sausage is made. That minideb is the basis for the higher CVE count compared to scratch or alpine images.
> it’s a well-kept secret that no one wants to talk about
the maintainer side most casual docker image users aren't aware of I'd rephrase, but bitnami at least documents the issue
- Minideb: A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers
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Minimal base images roundup
Ah, yeah it's a little more confusing because it's using the debootstrap tool (https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap) to build the container image filesystem. You can see all the gory logic here: https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/blob/master/buildone and https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/blob/master/mkimage It's a bunch of shell scripting that's not really meant to be interpreted by anyone that isn't a debian expert though, so don't feel bad if it looks really confusing. I think the overall thing is that minideb installs the absolute bare minimum system with debootstrap and even strips out a few essential packages like trusted SSL CAs, etc. If you need anything (including those essential packages) you're meant to just install_packages install them--it's all using the same apt sources and packages as debian.
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Microsoft repo installed on all Raspberry Pi’s
Do you know why this is? Because it's part of the base file system. Here is a line from the build script for minideb (basically the smallest image needed to run a container): https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/blob/e4f37e8a5d271d93b79c3f4caa49c4ceb95d8eec/mkimage#L52
distroless
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Chainguard Images now available on Docker Hub
lots of questions here regarding what this product is. I guess i can provide some information for the context, from a perspective of an outside contributor.
Chainguard Images is a set of hardened container images.
They were built by the original team that brought you Google's Distroless (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless)
However, there were few problems with Distroless:
1. distroless were based on Debian - which in turn, limited to Debian's release cadence for fixing CVE.
2. distroless is using bazelbuild, which is not exactly easy to contrib, customize, etc...
3. distroless images are hard to extend.
Chainguard built a new "undistro" OS for container workload, named Wolfi, using their OSS projects like melange (for packaging pkgs) and apko (for building images).
The idea is (from my understanding) is that
1. You don't have to rely on upstream to cut a release. Chainguard will be doing that, with lots of automation & guardrails in placed. This allow them to fix vulnerabilties extremely fast.
- Language focused Docker images, minus the operating system
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Using Alpine can make Python Docker builds 50× slower
> If you have one image based on Ubuntu in your stack, you may as well base them all on Ubuntu, because you only need to download (and store!) the common base image once
This is only true if your infrastructure is static. If your infrastructure is highly elastic, image size has an impact on your time to scale up.
Of course, there are better choices than Alpine to optimize image size. Distroless (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless) is a good example.
- Smaller and Safer Clojure Containers: Minimizing the Software Bill of Materials
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Long Term Ownership of an Event-Driven System
The same as our code dependencies, container updates can include security patches and bug fixes and improvements. However, they can also include breaking changes and it is crucial you test them thoroughly before putting them into production. Wherever possible, I recommend using the distroless base image which will drastically reduce both your image size, your risk vector, and therefore your maintenance version going forward.
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Minimizing Nuxt 3 Docker Images
# Use a large Node.js base image to build the application and name it "build" FROM node:18-alpine as build WORKDIR /app # Copy the package.json and package-lock.json files into the working directory before copying the rest of the files # This will cache the dependencies and speed up subsequent builds if the dependencies don't change COPY package*.json /app # You might want to use yarn or pnpm instead RUN npm install COPY . /app RUN npm run build # Instead of using a node:18-alpine image, we are using a distroless image. These are provided by google: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless FROM gcr.io/distroless/nodejs:18 as prod WORKDIR /app # Copy the built application from the "build" image into the "prod" image COPY --from=build /app/.output /app/.output # Since this image only contains node.js, we do not need to specify the node command and simply pass the path to the index.mjs file! CMD ["/app/.output/server/index.mjs"]
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Build Your Own Docker with Linux Namespaces, Cgroups, and Chroot
Lots of examples without the entire OS as other comments mention, an example would be Googles distroless[0]
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Reddit temporarily ban subreddit and user advertising rival self-hosted platform (Lemmy)
Docker doesn't do this all the time. Distroless Docker containers are relatively common. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
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Why elixir over Golang
Deployment: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
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Reviews
Or use distroless image as it includes one, among others. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/blob/main/base/README.md
What are some alternatives?
Lean and Mean Docker containers - Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)
iron-alpine - Hardened alpine linux baseimage for Docker.
stego-toolkit - Collection of steganography tools - helps with CTF challenges
spring-boot-jib - This project is about Containerizing a Spring Boot Application With Jib
graylog-docker - Official Graylog Docker image
jib - 🏗 Build container images for your Java applications.
bitnami-docker-drupal - Bitnami Docker Image for Drupal
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
pi-gen - Tool used to create the official Raspberry Pi OS images
dockerfiles - Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.
SSDB - SSDB - A fast NoSQL database, an alternative to Redis
docker-alpine - Official Alpine Linux Docker image. Win at minimalism!