Discussion: `apk` as deployment pipeline

[Another Droog]

Let’s figure out if it makes sense to bundle our tools as a apk package for alpine.

What are the pros and cons?

apk add mana would provide a convenient way to deploy

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[Noah O'Donoghue]

Cons:
Another development pipeline
We already have Docker
If our tools have dependencies, they get installed onto the host OS
Any dependencies that get installed increase the security footprint for the whole system, not just one docker image..
If dependencies have vulnerabilities, they have to be updated too

[Damian Mee]

I generally agree with you @noaho. Especially if we can do build stage and final stage on Docker.