Re:Inside Docker's “FROM scratch”
by embano1 on Monday November 27, 2017 @07:00AM
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Thx! See me comment above on why you would want to put static binaries in "scratch", i.e. use "scratch" to deploy apps and not just for building base layers as you suggest.
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Re:Inside Docker's “FROM scratch”
by walterstucco on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:44AM
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You can however compose micro services with scratch
For example I created a cntlm base image (linked in another comment)
From there I can do
FROM my_base_image COPY whatever
and then add layers of services
first one is proxy
second one could be queue service (for example http://nsq.io)
then a message server, that just sends notifications
etc. etc. etc.
The same could be achieved downloading and configuring the static binaries, but Docker packaging, security and network separation makes evrything a little bit easier