fogger/alpine repository overview

This repo contains manifest lists⁠ that allow for multi-architecture images!

⁠What is Fogger?

Fogger⁠ is an open source engine that allows to build distributed Fog Computing⁠ environment over heterogenous hardware layer at the network edge.

⁠What is Alpine Linux?

Alpine Linux⁠ is a Linux distribution built around musl libc⁠ and BusyBox⁠. The image is only 5 MB in size and has access to a package repository⁠ that is much more complete than other BusyBox based images. This makes Alpine Linux a great image base for utilities and even production applications. Read more about Alpine Linux here⁠ and you can see how their mantra fits in right at home with Docker images.

⁠How to use this image ?

You can use this image like you would any other ordinary base image:

FROM fogger/alpine:3.7
COMMAND ["sh"]

And use the potential of manifest lists⁠ to automatically match image to your host architecture.

Or you can leverage potential of fogger/image⁠ project and build your application for all supported architectures with a single command.

⁠Issues

If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact us through a GitHub issue in fogger/image⁠ repo.

You can also reach our team via the slack channel⁠.

⁠Contributing

You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small; we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as we can.

Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans through a GitHub issue⁠, especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone else is working on the same thing.