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YesBait

@bagder a bit off-topic, but I just realized: people are running curl in Docker. A single binary command line application. And not a few, but causing 5000000000 downloads. What is going on in IT?

16 Mar 2023 at 8:04 | Wall-to-wall | Open on bsd.network
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Fabio Manganiello

@yesbait @bagder I think it's docker-composer's fault for turning a container manager basically into a package manager.

When disk space is no longer a constraint, people start installing a 100 MB Alpine image just to run a 5 MB executable.

16 Mar 2023 at 8:15 | Open on social.platypush.tech
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@blacklight @yesbait @bagder docker only downloads the parts of an image you are missing, so, if you already have an alpine image from a different container, docker reuses it and only downloads the additional files required to run curl

16 Mar 2023 at 8:48 | Open on fosstodon.org
Dani Pardo

@yesbait @bagder I've just run docker once, to self-host Gitlab, which might make sense, but this is kind of ridiculous. I whouldn't be surprised now if there's a docker image for running /usr/bin/true.

16 Mar 2023 at 8:27 | Open on fosstodon.org
Simon Eilting

@yesbait @bagder sometimes you run stuff on other people's machines - like in CI. It makes sense to have everything containerised there, even if it's only curl.

I can also see it being used for an initContainer in kubernetes.

17 Mar 2023 at 9:35 | Open on mastodon.scot
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