lborguetti/docker-base-image repository overview

⁠docker-base-image

This project build automatically a docker image FROM debian:stable-slim

⁠Why use one docker-base-image?

• It reduces the time needed to run docker build, allowing you to iterate your Dockerfile more quickly.
• It reduces download time during redeploys. Docker only needs to download the base image once: during the first deploy. On every subsequent deploys, only the changes you make on top of the base image are downloaded.
• It reduces the time to apply a security patch and ensure all update, you have a single point to keep your eye.

⁠What's inside the image?

ca-certificates
curl
ngrep

⁠How use this docker-base-image?

This project will've build this image weekly and publish with a tag stable

You can find all releases here: https://hub.docker.com/r/lborguetti/docker-base-image/tags/⁠

The FROM instruction specifies the Base Image from which you are building, use this image there.

cat <<EOF> Dockerfile
FROM lborguetti/docker-base-image:stable

ADD binary /

ENTRYPOINT ["./binary"]
EOF

⁠Build flow

Travis CI and Docker Hub can build this image weekly without user interaction.

Travis-CI is setted to trigger weekly a build from master branch. This build will create a branch with the name "year.month.day" and will push back to github.

At Docker Hub has a "automated build" listening new branches and building two images, one with the tag stable and other with the name of the branch.