TL;DR
I just released gnu-on-alpine 3.18.3 and alpine-plus-plus 3.18.3, two lightweight containers for implementing GitHub Container Actions with shell scripting. Both containers are built upon alpine to keep the image size small for fast loading within GitHub Actions, and both are preinstalled with bash, coreutils, findutils, and gawk; and alpine-plus-plus is additionally preinstalled with git.
Changelog gnu-on-alpine 3.18.3 - 2023-08-08
Changed
- Bumped alpine to 3.18.3.
Changelog alpine-plus-plus 3.18.3 - 2023-08-08
Changed
- Bumped alpine to 3.18.3.
More Information
For more information, see my earlier post about gnu-on-alpine and alpine-plus-plus here on DEV, as well as their GitHub repositories.
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gnu-on-alpine
A lightweight docker image for shell scripting with GNU tools
gnu-on-alpine
A lightweight docker image for shell scripting with GNU tools (Alpine plus bash, coreutils, findutils, gawk)
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Summary
The gnu-on-alpine Docker image is designed to support shell scripting using GNU tools such as the bash shell, gawk, coreutils, and findutils, while keeping the image size relatively small. Alpine Linux is used as the base image. The gnu-on-alpine image adds bash, findutils, coreutils, and gawk on top of Alpine Linux.
For more information, see my blog post on DEV: gnu-on-alpine and alpine-plus-plus: Two Lightweight Containers for Implementing GitHub Container Actions with Shell Scripting.
Multiplatform Image
gnu-on-alpine has the following platforms available:
- linux/386
- linux/amd64
- linux/arm/v6
- linux/arm/v7
- linux/arm64
- linux/ppc64le
- linux/s390x
Source Repository and Builds
The source repository is maintained on GitHub. The images are built on Github and pushed to Docker Hub, as well as the Github Container Registry using Github Actions.
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alpine-plus-plus
A lightweight docker image for shell scripting and git
alpine-plus-plus
A lightweight docker image for shell scripting and git (Alpine plus bash, coreutils, findutils, gawk, git)
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Summary
The alpine-plus-plus Docker image is motivated by Github-actions implemented primarily with bash and shell utilities, but is also potentially applicable to any use-case where you primarily need bash and GNU tools like gawk, etc, as well as git, but also want to keep the image size relatively small. Alpine Linux is used as the base image. Alone, Alpine almost suits this purpose However, it lacks the bash shell, and commonly used GNU tools such as findutils, gawk, etc. It also lacks git. The alpine-plus-plus image adds git, bash, findutils, coreutils, and gawk on top of Alpine Linux.
For more information, see my blog post on DEV: gnu-on-alpine and alpine-plus-plus: Two Lightweight Containers for Implementing GitHub Container Actions with Shell Scripting.
Multiplatform Image
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Vincent A. Cicirello - Professor of Computer Science
Vincent A. Cicirello - Professor of Computer Science at Stockton University - is a researcher in artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, and computational intelligence, with a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is an ACM Senior Member, IEEE Senior Member, AAAI Life Member, EAI Distinguished Member, and SIAM Member.
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