Plans for adding support for Alpine Linux?

[roens]

We're using Nginx in Alpine Linux (AWS ECS Fargate), and are interested in employing this agent.

The RPM package appears to build, after installing the alpine-sdk and rpm packages. However, attempt to install the built package results in failing dependencies:

/new-relic-agent # rpm -i build_output/nginx-nr-agent-2.0.1-1.ngx.noarch.rpm 
error: Failed dependencies:
    /bin/bash is needed by nginx-nr-agent-2.0.1-1.ngx.noarch
    /bin/sh is needed by nginx-nr-agent-2.0.1-1.ngx.noarch
    /usr/bin/env is needed by nginx-nr-agent-2.0.1-1.ngx.noarch
    chkconfig is needed by nginx-nr-agent-2.0.1-1.ngx.noarch
    initscripts >= 8.36 is needed by nginx-nr-agent-2.0.1-1.ngx.noarch
    python >= 2.6 is needed by nginx-nr-agent-2.0.1-1.ngx.noarch
    python-daemon is needed by nginx-nr-agent-2.0.1-1.ngx.noarch

Which brings up questions like:

• Why does the init script expect bash to be present?
• Why isn't Python 3 supported (2.7 EOL is coming, and presently has just over 10 months left)?
• In Alpine Linux, sh, env, and initscripts are all part of busybox…

[Dean-Coakley]

Hi @roens

We are not actively developing or supporting the new relic agent now. - See: https://github.com/nginxinc/new-relic-agent#support

However, if you’d like to submit a pull request, we will take a look and merge it if it looks ok.

[roens]

Hey @Dean-Coakley,

Thanks for the response and info! I'll look into what I might manage to do with it.

[EmileForker]

The workaround which worked for me is:

1. Install all needed deps separately
2. Install agent in --nodeps mode