airdock/base repository overview

⁠docker-base

This project define our base image which rely on debian:jessie

Tags:

• latest, jessie: based on debian jessie

⁠Features

⁠Common Features

• Add gosu⁠ Jessie or su-exec⁠ Alpine
• add tini⁠
• Add utility to create new container user with specific uid:gid (script '/root/create-user'). Note that since few year, se commonly use user 1000:1000 inside container.
• Following FHS⁠ standard.
• Add utility to clean up image during docker build (script '/root/post-install')
• Define standard application user (with gosu/su-exec, you have all to run docker container with a user other than root)
• Define LANG to en_US.UTF-8

⁠Debian Jessie

Under 'jessie' folder you could retreive:

• Add curl (often used ...)
• Apply security update if necessary
• Fix some common docker build issue with apt-get
• Define a root bash friendly for debug use

⁠Usage

You should have already install Docker⁠.

Execute: 'docker run -t -i airdock/base:latest'

⁠Reading

We recommend to you spending time to read few documentation on wiki⁠:

• Docker Common Project Tree and build⁠
• About user in Container⁠ if you do something with docker volume (and you will do...)

And little more, if you want to create your own docker images:

• Debian:jessy source⁠
• Official Repositories⁠
• Docker Best practices⁠
• From Michael Crosby:
  • Best practices part I⁠
  • Best practices part II⁠

⁠Change Log

⁠2020/11/21

• update tiny and gosu
• remove alpine (stay focus on debian)
• mark this project as obsolete

⁠2016/12/23

• minimize layer count (optimize ENV declaration)

⁠2016/12/21

• introduce base from alpine
• integrate jessie and alpine as base image
• add tini process managment

⁠2016/12/18

• update gosu utility 1.9
• add 'docker' user (4242:4242)

⁠before

• use debian jessie distribution as our default system
• add gosu utility (1.7)
• configure default locale to en_US.UTF-8, set LC_ALL and LANG variable
• default command to "/bin/bash" with initialized shell
• fix build issue with docker (apt-get usage with term dialog, no init.d, add apt-utils)
• use MIT license
• set default working directory to /root,
• add few common aliases (see Alias⁠ for more)
• add create-user script (utility to create 'standard user account')
• add post-install script (utility to clean up image in dockerfile )
• create all common user account used in airdock images
• define base of user and group identifier (4200) define in airdock images
• define '/srv/{user}' as data folder for application user with links on '/var/lib/{user}' for backward compatibility.

⁠Build

• Install "make" utility, and execute: make build
• Or execute: 'docker build -t airdock/base:latest --rm .'

See Docker Project Tree⁠ for more details.

⁠MIT License

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