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Minimal Node.js Docker Images built on Alpine Linux

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Smaller image size?

styfle opened this issue · comments

commented

There's a new project trending today called scratch-node.

When I compared images for version 10.13.0, scratch-node is smaller than alpine-node.

  • mhart/alpine-node:base-10.13.0 17 MB
  • astefanutti/scratch-node:10.13.0 14 MB

Is there some cruft that alpine-node (base images) could drop?

commented

I don't think so – those images have nothing else AFAICT – so you can't install any alpine packages on them or anything else – without writing your own custom dockerfile. Nice idea! But quite a bit more restrictive than these images

commented

Also, using upx is going to definitely affect the startup time of the binary (although I'd be intrigued to see by how much)