Closed juju4 closed 6 years ago
It's been 1.5 years. Why no support to alpine?
I think it makes great sense for test-kitchen/chef/serverspec/ansible with docker to do infrastructure code test or even test-driven infrastructure code develeopment. alpine makes it much smaller and faster to use.
Is there a specific reason why not supporting alpine? I'm not familiar with different distributions of linux, maybe there is some block issue?
We don't intend to support Alpine. We already provide docker images that contain chef and chefdk for use with test kitchen (see https://github.com/someara/kitchen-dokken) or to use the chefdk tooling in docker. Providing support for Alpine means much more than just installing; we need to test, verify and add support for the way alpine works to chef, and there just isn't sufficient demand for that - and we think that Habitat is a better way to build and configure containers.
In my use case, I'm running with GitLab CI, meaning Docker In Docker.
Official Docker's images are based on Alpine, so I have to use the docker
Docker image, and have the kitchen
command available.
@thommay of course it means more than installing Alpine, but Alpine is really popular in the Docker community, not supporting it sounds like closing the door to a lot of users IMHO.
In the other hand, in the case you have this kind of stuff, sharing a manual installation process replacing the automagical omnitruck solution would help too.
Hello,
Any plan for install.sh to support Alpine Linux ?
Thanks