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Create a minimal variant? #37
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A few months ago I was at DockerCon and @proppy asked if it was possible to statically compile Node.js and use the resulting binary to create a very small Docker image with just Node.js. I'm in SF this week and during a hack-a-thon at Joyent I put that out there and it turns out it's pretty easy:
https://hub.docker.com/r/joshwilsdon/nodejs/
I took the above and put together a rough build process/proof-of-concept:
https://hub.docker.com/r/chorrell/node-minimal/
I think this would be an interesting variant we could provide. It would require a some doc on how to use it and how to use it as a base for other images.
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proppy commentedon Aug 28, 2015
It would be neat to package the binary as a signed layer-ready tarball on every nodejs release.
That way we could just to
ADD node-layer-latest.tar.gzto provide the official minimal variant.And also do something like https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/tree/master/go2docker to build a docker image for node.js app without docker :)
lucamaraschi commentedon Sep 11, 2015
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retrohacker commentedon Mar 4, 2016
Duplicate of the work being done here: #46
Building from Alpine and scratch have similar requirements.