Minimal Ubuntu – how small can it go?
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Minimal Ubuntu – how small can it go?
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#2Except that it's not in Docker Hub... yet!
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#3> The unminimize tool lets you ‘rehydrate’ your image into a familiar Ubuntu server package set, suitable for command line interaction.
Nice 'Three body problem' reference they've sneaked in.
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#4Cool! Alpine is a neat project, but I find package management on Alpine to be a uniformly frustrating experience. Having a tiny version of Ubuntu for docker is a fantastic idea.
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#5When Alpine doesn't cut it, I use Debian's "slim" docker images. 55MB size. This minimal ubuntu is slightly smaller, but I don't see anything else novel about it - why should I be excited?
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#6> The unminimize tool lets you ‘rehydrate’ your image into a familiar Ubuntu server package set, suitable for command line interaction. Nice 'Three body problem' reference they've sneaked in.
What’s this? Please explain to the uninitiated
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#7Cool! Alpine is a neat project, but I find package management on Alpine to be a uniformly frustrating experience. Having a tiny version of Ubuntu for docker is a fantastic idea.
What exactly is bothering you about Alpine package management?
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#8When Alpine doesn't cut it, I use Debian's "slim" docker images. 55MB size. This minimal ubuntu is slightly smaller, but I don't see anything else novel about it - why should I be excited?
That would be the real question: considering Ubuntu is just a Debian fork, what is the benefit of using Ubuntu on a server?
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#9> The unminimize tool lets you ‘rehydrate’ your image into a familiar Ubuntu server package set, suitable for command line interaction. Nice 'Three body problem' reference they've sneaked in.
What’s this? Please explain to the uninitiated
It's a reference to the sci-fi book The three body problem by Liu Cixin[1]. In that ta mysterious game about an alien planet where its population can be dehydrated to survive harsh conditions which could last millenia, and then re-hydrated when the conditions are right.
Although i think the terms hydrate-dehydrate are not unheard of in tech stacks for example in a django REST framework called tastypie to denote serialization-deserialization of data.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
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#10When Alpine doesn't cut it, I use Debian's "slim" docker images. 55MB size. This minimal ubuntu is slightly smaller, but I don't see anything else novel about it - why should I be excited?
There is also https://github.com/bitnami/minideb