niiiixd/kubehelm repository overview

⁠KubeHelm

⁠What is KubeHelm

A minimalist Debian-based⁠ image built specifically to be used as a base image for helm and kubectl

⁠Use KubeHelm

You can use the image directly, e.g.

$ docker run --rm -it niiiixd/kubehelm:latest

There are tags⁠ for the different Debian releases and platforms.

$ docker run --rm -it niiiixd/kubehelm:bullseye

$ docker run --rm -it niiiixd/kubehelm:latest-amd64

The images are built daily and have the security release enabled, so will contain any security updates released more than 24 hours ago.

You can also use the images as a base for your own Dockerfile:

FROM niiiixd/kubehelm:bullseye

⁠Why use KubeHelm

• This image aims to strike a good balance between small images and many quality packages available for easy integration.

• The image is based on Glibc for wide compatibility and is apt for access to many packages. To reduce the size of the image, some things that aren't required in containers are removed:

  • Packages that aren't often used in containers (hardware related, init systems, etc.)
  • Some files that aren't usually required (docs, man pages, locales, caches)

• These images also include an install_packages command that you can use instead of apt. This takes care of some things for you:

  • Install the named packages, skipping prompts, etc.
  • Clean up the apt metadata afterward to keep the image small.
  • Retrying if apt fail. Sometimes a package will fail to download due to a network issue, and this may fix that, which is particularly useful in an automated build pipeline.

  For example:

  $ install_packages apache2 memcached
  

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⁠Compatibility

The image points to the Debian archive, so you are free to install the packages from there that you need. However, because some Essential packages have been removed, they may not always install or work correctly.

In those cases, you can figure out which package is needed and manually specify to install it along with your desired packages. Please feel free to submit an issue request so we can reach out and help you quickly.

⁠License

Copyright © 2022 Sadegh Khademi

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0⁠

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

⁠Author Information

• Sadegh Khademi - SRE/Cloud Engineer - Sadegh Khademi website⁠ - Twitter @niiiixd⁠ - Email Address Email⁠