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Container base images with glibc & musl (Ship It! #76)
In today’s episode, we talk about distroless, ko, apko, melange, musl and glibc. The context is Wolfi OS, a community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era. If you are looking for the lightest possible container base image with 0 CVEs and both glibc and musl support, Wolfi OS & the related chainguard-images are worth checking out.
Ariadne Conill is an Alpine Linux TSC member & Software Engineer at Chainguard.
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Notes and Links
- Ariadne’s Twitter thread that kick-started this episode
- Wolfi OS - a stripped-down distro designed for the cloud-native era
- Minimal Container images from Chainguard
- ko - build and deploy Go applications on Kubernetes
- apko Overview - build OCI images using APK directly
- melange - build APKs from source code
- musl libc
- glibc - GNU C library
- “We discovered a bug in our repository management service”
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!