yanzinetworks/alpine repository overview

⁠glibc-capable Alpine

These images are almost identical to the official alpine images at the Docker hub⁠, while being able to execute binaries that depend on glibc. This is made possible through this⁠ wonderful glibc compatibility layer. Hooks⁠ ensure that, for each build, identical copies to the current list of available tags⁠ for the official alpine⁠ are automatically (re)built.

⁠Example

A self-contained and rather contrieved example would consist in running the docker command-line from a Ubuntu (or similar) host using this image. This works by giving away the Docker socket together with the binary from the Ubuntu host to the Alpine-based container and running the mapped binary from within the container.

docker run \
    --rm \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
    -v /usr/bin/docker:/usr/bin/docker:ro
    yanzinetworks/alpine
    docker ps

Using this technique allows to run docker from any image based on this image, much similarily to the official docker⁠ image.

⁠Acknowledgements

The idea behind this image comes from this attempt⁠ to run grafana⁠ under an Alpine image.