[Container-tools] Community Node.js Builder Images

[Brian Gollaher]

Adding Ben Breard as this will be interesting to him.

On 03/16/2017 12:37 PM, Lance Ball wrote:
> Hi all
>
> You may have seen recently that a few of us have started to maintain 
> some up-to-the-minute Node.js builder images for Docker and Openshift 
> [1]. At the moment, we have up to date images for Node 4,5,6 and 7. 
> However, these are all running on CentOS.
>
> Recently, based on an email thread in @microservices, I started 
> looking into the image sizes for what we are producing, and was pretty 
> amazed to see ours at about 485MB. Not to be dissuaded, I decided that 
> I would see what effort was required to create Node.js 4,5,6 and 7 
> builder images on rhel7-atomic. Without too much effort, I managed to 
> create images based on this that were much smaller - about 140MB. 
> Great news!
>
> However, this led me to a couple of questions that I would like to put 
> forward for discussion, and ultimately follow up with one or more 
> issues in https://issues.jboss.org/projects/NODE.
>
> Based on the evidence I have seen, there is a lot of interest in a 
> smaller footprint for base/builder images. A rhel7-atomic builder 
> image (not specific to Node.js) that could be further added to by 
> projects like ours, would be very useful. A base builder image 
> currently exists for RHEL, Fedora and CentOS. These base images make 
> downstream projects such as ours much easier to implement because all 
> of the OpenShift specific bits are already taken care of (e.g. 
> STI_SCRIPTS_URL, etc).
>
> I was wondering if there is any current effort to produce a similar 
> base image for rhel7-atomic. If not, is this the kind of activity that 
> would be left to the community, or are there plans in the works within 
> Red Hat to make this happen?
>
> I also think that, in addition to the current OpenShift offerings for 
> Node.js on RHEL and CentOS, we should be providing a larger matrix of 
> options. Is there any reason not to pursue community versions of 
> Node.js builder images for the following combination of OS/Node?
>
> RHEL -> Node 4, 5, 6, 7
> rhel7-atomic -> Node 4, 5, 6, 7
> Fedora -> Node 4, 5, 6, 7
> CentOS -> Node 4, 5, 6, 7
>
> I understand that SCL-provided, supported images for RHEL already 
> exist for Node.js v4.x and soon to be Node.js v6.x. As you probably 
> know, some of us are actively working towards a solution that would 
> allow these supported images to achieve greater turnaround time, and 
> maintain version parity with all current Node.js releases.
>
> Would the addition of community provided rhel7-atomic, fedora and 
> perhaps even rhel images be welcomed?
>
> Lance
>
>
> [1] github.com/bucharest-gold/origin-s2i-nodejs 
> <http://github.com/bucharest-gold/origin-s2i-nodejs>
>
>
>
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