Base image (minidocks/base)

The best docker container for developers. This is a very small container (total < 8 MB) based on Alpine image.

Alpine repositories

All images have registered the following apk repositories:

• @edge (@main⁠, @community⁠, @testing⁠)
• @320 (@main320⁠, @community320⁠)
• @319 (@main319⁠, @community319⁠)
• @318 (@main318⁠, @community318⁠)

Utilities

All images contain the following extra packages:

• tini⁠ A tiny but valid init for containers.
• monit⁠ Managing and monitoring on a UNIX system.
• inotify-tools⁠ CLI tools providing a simple interface to inotify.
• dropbear⁠ Small SSH 2 client/server designed for small memory environments.
• envsubst⁠ Substitutes environment variables in shell format strings.
• ca-certificates⁠ Common CA certificates PEM files.
• su-exec⁠ Switch user and group id, setgroups and exec.
• wait-for⁠ Wait for another service to become available.
• libc6-compat⁠ Compatibility libraries for glibc.
• flock⁠ File locker from util-linux.

Features

Host user id and group id

The base image matches your userid / groupid inside the container at runtime.

Inspiration:

• https://github.com/Graham42/mapped-uid-docker⁠
• https://github.com/reduardo7/docker-host-user⁠

rootfs

ssh

Supervise

• https://github.com/bahamas10/vsv⁠
• https://github.com/SwagDevOps/sv-utils⁠
• https://github.com/cheshirecode/alpine-runit⁠

Environment variables

• ALIAS_*:

• CLEAN:

• ENV_FILE:

• AUTO_CHOWN:

• PATH_PREFIX:

• PATH_SUFFIX:

• CRON_USER_*:

• CRON_SCHEDULE_*:

• CRON_COMMAND_*:

• STARTUP_COMMAND_*:

• FILE_*_PATH:

• FILE_*_CONTENT:

• SUEXEC:

• ID:

• USER_NAME: User name. You can use $USERNAME to get current user name.

• USER_ID: User ID. You can use $UID to get current user ID.

• GROUP_NAME: User group name. You can use $(id -g -n $USERNAME) to get current user group name.

• GROUP_ID: User group ID. You can use $(id -g $USERNAME) to get current user group ID.

• USER_SHELL: User shell. Default value: /bin/bash.

• USER_PASSWORD: User password. Default value: password.

• USER_MASK: User mask.

• PATH_HOME: Default value: /home/${HOST_USER_NAME}.

https://github.com/hejack0207/empty.c⁠ (sexpect)

Run GUI application

xhost +
docker run --rm -it -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v `pwd`:/app -w /app minidocks/gimp

Tags

Tag	Size
latest, 3.21
build, 3.21-build
edge
edge-build
3.21
3.21-build
3.20
3.20-build
3.19
3.19-build
3.18
3.18-build

Inspiration

• https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay⁠
• https://blog.iron.io/microcontainers-tiny-portable-containers/⁠
• http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/docker-image-author-guidance/⁠
• https://github.com/nimmis/docker-alpine-micro⁠
• https://github.com/dockage/alpine⁠
• https://github.com/docker-suite/alpine-base/⁠

Alternatives

• https://github.com/CraftDock/alpine-base⁠
• https://github.com/thecodingmachine/docker-images-php⁠
• https://github.com/bash-suite⁠
• https://github.com/QuantumObject/docker-alpine⁠

https://ypereirareis.github.io/blog/2015/12/01/docker-container-external-links-alias-hosts-unavailable/⁠https://jtreminio.com/blog/running-docker-containers-as-current-host-user⁠