Containers: Image Build Strategy

[TimoGoebel]

@lzap

I agree we should take it slow. But also I don’t see anybody rushing things, Eric RFCs are great example that this is taken seriously and slowly.

I agree, I just want to make sure we don’t aim to high in the first iteration and this effort is going to happen.

@lzap

Can you elaborate what kind of good experience this is? Things are nice when they work, the problems you don’t usually see show up when they break. I am just curious.

I was quite skeptical at alpine linux, but it has served us well as a base container in several places. As you said, things are nice when they work. Alpine Linux has worked well so far. And without SCL it was pretty easy to use.

@lzap

End of very biased opinion about CentOS vs Alpine

It’s fine, I just want to get us talking. I’m totally fine with CentOS. I don’t believe we need 10 years support for our container base image and the additional complexity of SCL’d ruby, but it won’t make much of a difference in the end. We can make the packaging effort easier and the product more stable with basically any base image.

Thanks, guys, I really appreciate the discussion.