Alpine on Container with Runit

Overview

This repository provides a lightweight Alpine-based container image with additional utilities and tools pre-installed. It uses runit as the init system and includes a number of useful packages.

Features

• Based on Alpine Linux
• runit as init system
• Essential utilities including:
  • bash, vim, curl, git
  • python3, dpkg, gnupg, procps
  • parallel, tzdata, gcompat, gzip, zsh
  • unzip, ca-certificates
• gosu installed for better process control
• oh-my-zsh with agnoster theme enabled
• Non-root user mich43l created for better security
• Custom entrypoint script

Usage

Build the Image

 docker build --build-arg VERSION=latest -t mich43l/os:alpine .

Run the Container

 docker run -it mich43l/os:alpine

Customizing the Image

You can override the default user by providing build arguments:

 docker build --build-arg USERNAME=myuser --build-arg USER_UID=2000 --build-arg USER_GID=2000 -t myimage .

EntryPoint Script

The container uses a custom docker-entrypoint.sh script, which ensures proper setup before launching the shell.

Repository

GitHub Repository⁠

Author

Maintained by mich43l