Hi Pierce, Cross posting my answer from VM to here, sorry for the duplicate. This is very interesting. I have been playing with docker too [1] [2] [3] and indeed I also tried to make it work with alpine [4]. But it was complicated because alpine doesn't come with `glibc` but instead `musl`. And there are differences between them. So for example for VA Smalltalk I had to install `glibc`. I succeeded but the final size of the docker image with alpine + glibc was almost the same size as the debian lite... so it didn't make much sense to me. The support for glic is not official and as you can see I reported it [5] Anyway, I will be curious to know your progress. Would cog VM work correctly with musl instead of glibc? Best, [1] https://dev.to/martinezpeck/getting-started-with-docker-and-smalltalk-4po1 [2] https://dev.to/martinezpeck/step-2-single-node-docker-swarm-and-smalltalk-46... [3] https://dev.to/martinezpeck/docker-swarm-cloud-on-a-arm64-diy-sbc-cluster-ru... <https://dev.to/martinezpeck/docker-swarm-cloud-on-a-arm64-diy-sbc-cluster-ru...> [4] https://github.com/vasmalltalk/docker-examples/blob/master/source/SeasideTra... [5] https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc/issues/113 On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 5:39 AM Pierce Ng <pierce@samadhiweb.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I've written a blog post on the topic.
https://www.samadhiweb.com/blog/2019.07.20.alpine.pharo.minimal.html
TL;DR:
- Built pharo.cog.spur.minheadless on Alpine Linux.
- Built Docker image of same: 12.5MB.
- Using 7-minimal as base, built a stateless Pharo image with SUnit and SQLite: ~16MB.
- Ran the SQLite unit tests from the command line using said image statelessly.
- Built Docker image of Alpine Pharo VM and a/m SQLite Pharo image: 46.8MB.
- Ran said Docker image which ran the SQLite unit tests.
Pierce
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