Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Container base images with glibc & musl

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In today’s episode, we talk about distroless, ko, apko, melange, musl and glibc. The context is Wolfi OS, a community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era. If you are looking for the lightest possible container base image with 0 CVEs and both glibc and musl support, Wolfi OS & the related chainguard-images are worth checking out.

Ariadne Conill is an Alpine Linux TSC member & Software Engineer at Chainguard.

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    • Ariadne Conill – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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    Show Notes:

    • Ariadne’s Twitter thread that kick-started this episode
    • Wolfi OS - a stripped-down distro designed for the cloud-native era
    • Minimal Container images from Chainguard
    • ko - build and deploy Go applications on Kubernetes
    • apko Overview - build OCI images using APK directly
    • melange - build APKs from source code
    • musl libc
    • glibc - GNU C library
    • “We discovered a bug in our repository management service”

      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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