Minimalist Docker Container for Meteor

lpgeiger · May 8, 2015, 3:38pm

I’m searching on Docker Hub for a minimal container for Meteor.

All the ones I see include Ubuntu or Debian.

Seems to me like it’s a bad pattern to have the OS loaded into the container.

Any thoughts?

xet7 · December 22, 2023, 8:30pm

@lpgeiger

Example Dockerfile for Meteor container here:

github.com

wekan/wekan/blob/main/Dockerfile

FROM --platform=linux/amd64 ubuntu:23.10 as wekan
LABEL maintainer="wekan" \
      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="ubuntu" \
      org.opencontainers.image.version="23.10" \
      org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/wekan/wekan"

# 2022-09-04:
# - above "--platform=linux/amd64 ubuntu:22.04 as wekan" is needed to build Dockerfile
#   correctly on Mac M1 etc, to not get this error:
#   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71040681/qemu-x86-64-could-not-open-lib64-ld-linux-x86-64-so-2-no-such-file-or-direc

# 2022-04-25:
# - gyp does not yet work with Ubuntu 22.04 ubuntu:rolling,
#   so changing to 21.10. https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/4488

# 2021-09-18:
# - Above Ubuntu base image copied from Docker Hub ubuntu:hirsute-20210825
#   to Quay to avoid Docker Hub rate limits.

# Set the environment variables (defaults where required)

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I build this with:

docker build .

Then I use this script to push container image to some Docker registries, like GitHub, Docker Hub, Quay:

github.com

wekan/wekan/blob/main/releases/docker-push-wekan.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Push locally built docker images to Quay.io and Docker Hub.

# Check that there is 2 parameters of
# of Wekan version number:

if [ $# -ne 2 ]
  then
    echo "Usage: ./push-docker.sh DOCKERBUILDTAG WEKANVERSION"
    echo "Example: ./push-docker.sh 12345 5.70"
    exit 1
fi

sudo apt -y install skopeo

# Quay
docker tag $1 quay.io/wekan/wekan:v$2
docker push quay.io/wekan/wekan:v$2
docker tag $1 quay.io/wekan/wekan:latest

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xet7 · December 22, 2023, 8:34pm

@lpgeiger

All the ones I see include Ubuntu or Debian.
Seems to me like it’s a bad pattern to have the OS loaded into the container.

I use newest Ubuntu base image in Docker container, because Ubuntu has newest security fixes. Meteor works on Ubuntu, Debian, etc. I have tried Alpine Linux, but it had some errors, it did not work well.

Point with Docker containers is to include OS, that is compatible with app, like Meteor app.

There are some other programming languages and web frameworks, that can make Docker container, that only has one executeable binary. But that is not possible with Meteor yet.