Non-Obvious Docker Uses

• mockerfile

  1 77 10.0 Go

  A proof-of-concept alternative frontend for buildkit

• docker-merge

  1 34 1.9 Go

  Docker images as git repositories, so you can merge them.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• resolution

  1 14 6.5 Go
  

- Tekton bundles: https://github.com/tektoncd/resolution/tree/main/bundleresol...

There's even a demo (plug: in a talk I co-presented) of running a RISC-V emulator where its memory is stored in an OCI registry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt_G-pUArTM

These all tend to include a CLI to collect/generate/validate resources and push/move/pull them, but the underlying implementation is roughly the same -- package content in a tarball, generate some JSON pointing to it, push that JSON to the registry (with auth).

If you're interested in exploring it for your use case let me know, I'd be happy to give you some pointers.

• dud

  14 166 6.3 Go

  A lightweight CLI tool for versioning data alongside source code and building data pipelines.

I don't know about replacing Make with Docker, but I use the two together to good effect. One of my favorite hacks is adding a 'docker-%' rule in my Makefile to run make commands in a Docker image[1]. It's a bit mind-bending, and there's a few gotchas, but it works surprisingly well for simple rules.

[1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud/blob/e98de8fcdf7ad564...

• toast

  10 1,543 7.6 Rust

  Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂 (by stepchowfun)

• bob

  33 432 5.1 Go

  Bob is a high-level build tool for multi-language projects. (by benchkram)

  

We had the some learning and decided to go down the path "Use docker for running, not building". That's why we decided to build https://bob.build on top of the nix package-manager. This allows reproducible builds on your system without touching docker.

• metallize

  1 32 2.2 Python

  Create and manage bare metal disk images from docker images

I needed to iterate on bare metal images. Docker buildkit turned out to be an awesome environment for composing minimal/fast vm/bare-metal images.

https://github.com/tarasglek/metallize/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• QEMU

  190 9,236 10.0 C

  Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

  

Cross-compiling binaries for many platforms and architectures using Docker and QEMU[1] was a neat way I found to support more targets without having to have the hardware.

[1] https://www.qemu.org/

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