Publish latest alpine/terraspace container image to hub.docker.com
Motivation
In some environments, it is problematic to install/configure a ruby runtime with a gem such as Terraspace. As an alternative, support running Terraspace from a container. Terragrunt provides such a container here: https://github.com/alpine-docker/terragrunt. The Terragrunt container on dockerhub has been downloaded over 1 million times. Terraspace should consider following suit and defining git repo https://github.com/alpine/terraspace for use in pushing the latest Terraspace container image to dockerhub.
A Terraspace container image would also support native k8s CI pipelines that want to use Terraspace to manage infrastructure via a gitops model.
Finally, the Terraform community is accustomed to working with a dependency-free terraform Go binary and seamlessly-downloaded plugins. Any Ruby-specific dependencies and complexity should be hidden as much as possible in order to increase adoption within the Terraform community.
See current attempt to define a working alpine/terraspace container here.
tongueroo
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3 years ago
Summary
Publish latest alpine/terraspace container image to hub.docker.com
Motivation
In some environments, it is problematic to install/configure a ruby runtime with a gem such as Terraspace. As an alternative, support running Terraspace from a container. Terragrunt provides such a container here: https://github.com/alpine-docker/terragrunt. The Terragrunt container on dockerhub has been downloaded over 1 million times. Terraspace should consider following suit and defining git repo https://github.com/alpine/terraspace for use in pushing the latest Terraspace container image to dockerhub.
A Terraspace container image would also support native k8s CI pipelines that want to use Terraspace to manage infrastructure via a gitops model.
Finally, the Terraform community is accustomed to working with a dependency-free terraform Go binary and seamlessly-downloaded plugins. Any Ruby-specific dependencies and complexity should be hidden as much as possible in order to increase adoption within the Terraform community.
See current attempt to define a working alpine/terraspace container here.
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