Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server

Re:Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HT... by davidjfelix on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:27AM (#26901938)

If you're going for size, why not just sidecar all of the "standard posix-compliant tools" but ones that you would want normally. For example, bash instead of ash/dash. You don't need those tools all the time right?

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Re:Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HT... by dolmen on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:48AM (#26902129)

Well, you don't even need a shell.

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Re:Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HT... by davidjfelix on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:55AM (#26902186)

I mostly meant to sidecar the shell and treat it as a debugging utility. While I get the point of ash being smaller as a point for busybox, if size stops being a concern because the shell is in an inactive-sidecar, then you can use a shell that has less surprising edge cases for users, like bash.

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