Alpine linux ... on the road to sucking less
Kai Hendry
Managing Director, Webconverger
I really like Docker
- Dockerfile is genius
- hub.docker.com confuses me
- Docker's API sucks! How to list containers? `docker ps -a`
- Logging still sucks
- Single process containers are a bit limited to me
Systemd's systemd-nspawn has better process control & logging solution imo ...
Size matters
Introducing alpine
It sucks less
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library is bloated
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musl is the new hotness (limited gnu libc ABI compat)
- Base is 5MB !
- closed source support ~ zero
- But you probably wouldn't want it on your desktop (yet!)
My Webcam problem
No sane HTTP support !! P2P? UPNP? No thanks! Blog
FTP2HTTP
How to do this?
- We could write this in golang... but it would be totally non-trivial
- authentication for ftpd & httpd
- maybe something for processing the media?
Demo time
Managing auth... any good ideas?
Take aways
- use Alpine linux (less is more)
- musl is probably the most important OS development of late
- think about package re-use not module re-use