[dba-Tech] Building Containers

[Hans-Christian Andersen]

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(and it made a difference!) was a huge deal.

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On 27 April 2017 at 16:50, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> I am still working to get myself up to speed in the building of
> Containers. After working so many years with VDs, where the installation
> process was obvious, Containers still leave me challenged...there is just
> so many items that must be handled when building a distributive container.
>
> One interesting thing is the OS that a Container uses. It has to be super
> small, full featured and in the case of IoT (Internet of Things)
> applications, it must be very secure. To that end check out the Linux
> distro Alpine at https://alpinelinux.org.
>
> If it is run "headless" and stripped, a fully functional Alpine OS can be
> squeezed to only into only 3MB. (Of course this is huge compared to our
> systems back in the 80's but by today's standards, where an OS can top
> 20GB...)
>
> Jim
>
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