itsthenetwork/alpine-libressl repository overview

A handy basic image comprising of;

• Alpine Linux⁠ v3.6. A security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc⁠ and BusyBox⁠.
• LibreSSL⁠ v2.5.5. A fork of OpenSSL that aims to modernise the codebase, improve security and apply best practise development processes.
• ca-certificates. Common CA certificate PEM files from the Debian project.

⁠Pulling

Use this command to pull the image manually before runtime:

sudo docker pull itsthenetwork/alpine-libressl:latest

⁠Runtime

This command will start the container and calculate and display the md5 checksum of the test.txt file, which is located in the present working directory. The container will be automatically removed when the command completes.

sudo docker run -it --name=libressl --rm -v $PWD:/tmp itsthenetwork/alpine-libressl md5 /tmp/test.txt

⁠Dockerfile

The Dockerfile used to create this image is available at the root of the container's file system.

⁠Additional Packages

If you wanted to install additional packages and build your own image based upon this one you'd start your Dockerfile like this:

FROM itsthenetwork/alpine-libressl:latest

RUN apk --update --verbose --no-cache add package_name package_name

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