Witchery: tools for building distroless images with alpine

Re:Witchery: tools for building distroless images with alpine by jkbbwr on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:45PM (#28471699)

Im surprised we haven't bit the bullet and just jumped to unikernels and OS as a library yet. It removes a whole layer we just don't need.

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Re:Witchery: tools for building distroless images with alpine by jdmoreira on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:11PM (#28473459)

agree. I don’t understand why we are not there yet. I'm mostly an app developer but sometimes I ask a backender "are we unikernel yet?" And they just look at me like I'm speaking alien to them.

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Re:Witchery: tools for building distroless images with alpine by lonjil on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:33PM (#28474935)

Because then you'd need to make literally everything you use support the unikernel. Containers, and VMs running Linux, are nice because everything already works on Linux. Also, I don't see what you would actually gain. Like what layer is actually being removed here?

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Re:Witchery: tools for building distroless images with alpine by jdmoreira on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:46AM (#28480737)

The userland. It’s mostly bloatware in the age of containers

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