This might be the dumbest stuff anyone has asked here, but has anyone tried running Alpine as a desktop base OS? Seems pretty well stocked when it comes to the repo, and it’s light asf.
Thoughts?
Makes sense; one of the big things about it that interests me is the dockerfile generation. Although, I should probably get a better understanding of dockerfiles themselves before jumping into that; I have a habit of forgetting the order of carts and horses
Dockerfile
s act as instructions for the docker
(or compatible) CLI to use for building OCI container images. Images may or may not have layers and can be exported as a tarball for inspection (with tools like dive
).
Nix provides native support for building container images, and the resulting archive must be loaded using docker load
. There is another library (nix2container
) that aims for better performance and relies on skopeo
for copying the built image to a docker-compatible server, local or remote.
Just wanted to share a some of the information I’ve learned. Cheers!