That is a very good question, and it deserves a good answer.Īlpine Linux has its roots in LEAF, an embedded router project, which was in turn forked from the Linux Router on a Floppy project.Īs far as I can tell Alpine would have stayed on the lonely far fringe of Linux distributions if not for Docker. So far the most thought provoking question we've received is: why are we using Debian for this instead of Alpine Linux, the trendy minimalist upstart blessed by the powers at Docker? With Anton's help we added PoC tklx containers for Mongodb, Nginx, Postgres, Apache, Django and others: Alon has been quietly working on this for the last couple of months and managed to slim down Debian to 12MB compressed for the base image: There are several layers to the new architecture, but the first step is to figure out the best way to create the service containers.

Essentially the service container replaces the package as the highest level system abstraction.

Background: For TurnKey 15 (codenamed TKLX) we're evaluating a change of architecture from the current generation of monolithic systems to systems as collections of container based micro-services.

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