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liftoff / GateOne

Gate One is an HTML5-powered terminal emulator and SSH client
http://liftoffsoftware.com/Products/GateOne
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Smaller (and more generic) Docker image #691

Open fonix232 opened 6 years ago

fonix232 commented 6 years ago

I've been trying to get GateOne working on my WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS, which runs on a Marvell Armada SoC instead of an Intel chip, and I haven't been too successful.

However with some small changes, ARM support can be added. With that, I'd like to suggest the transition to an Alpine base image instead of Ubuntu - it's smaller, contains all the same minimal subsystems, has package management and build tools.

It would speed up deployment, reduce the size of the image, and reduce the Docker container startup time. Plus switching between different archs is literally a single switch of a base image.

bittner commented 6 years ago

Canonical has released Ubuntu minimal images. I recall reading "minimal" is now even the default. Hence, just rebuilding the image may already fix the image size. :+1: