Minimalist Docker Container for Meteor

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?

@lpgeiger

Example Dockerfile for Meteor container here:

I build this with:

docker build .

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

@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.