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Ubuntu 18.04 Minimal Spin Down To ~30MB Compressed / ~81MB On Disk
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Originally posted by aht0 View Post
Locales, also manpages etc have been removed from this Minimal Ubuntu. So Alpine's lack of locales is a void argument.
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Originally posted by Jumbotron View PostI know next to nothing about container architecture and performance...but I could imagine you wanting such a small footprint when you scale each instance into the hundreds if not thousands of containers. Definitely getting it that small makes it good for embedded stuff. Think Snaps installs on embedded platforms. And when the Linux Kernel is a Snap as well you have a full stack from kernel on up to be used as an embedded platform.
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Originally posted by AJenbo View Post
Biggest problem with Alipine is that you can't install locals so it's only good for applications that don't need localization.
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Originally posted by AJenbo View Post
Biggest problem with Alipine is that you can't install locals so it's only good for applications that don't need localization.
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It can "always" be smaller. I bet with a Gentoo or LFS, trimmed down, adjusted kernel config, everything compiled with -Os you might get further down. But then of course, you will lack functionality. So ~31 / 80 MiB is a good number - especially if you can actually use it afterwards.
By the way MS-DOS 6.0 was iirc. roughly 4 to 6 MiB on my HDD back in the days. And I bet CP/M was smaller AND it was some kind of OS.
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Originally posted by GraysonPeddie View Post30MB for a minimal CD? Very impressive! And up to 84MB for disk with no man pages and documentation! Why would anyone want to have that small of a minimal CD for container/Docker? OpenStack? Kubernetes? Or maybe have UniFi Controller or Home Assistant (for automating home automation devices such as Hue and Venstar Thermostat) in containers? Space is cheap and it would make sense to get 128GB M.2 for about $80 and install it in a Mini-ITX motherboard, assuming that the SFF motherboards should have enough room for just a single M.2 slot.
If I have orchestrated a collection of containers, if one dies then another spins up. The larger the image the longer it takes for Docker to clone the image to that instance and then start it. When you are wanting your services to respond in seconds, waiting 2 seconds for the instance to clone because you went 100 megs rather than 30, or 5 Mb for your service to clone is terrible for availability.
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Originally posted by caligula View PostNot that impressive compared to Alpine Linux.
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