Image with Debian and 18

[AndreKR]

Node.js 16 is getting pretty old and there are nodes on npm that don't support 16 anymore.

Would it be possible to bump the Node.js version of the Debian images to 18?

[hardillb]

NodeJS version bumps will happen in Node-RED 4.0

[AndreKR]

Depending on when that will happen, would it in the meantime be possible to provide "-18" images like there already are for Alpine?

[hardillb]

No, we will not be increasing the number of containers we already have to maintain and support.

If you need a container based on NodeJS 18 you can build your own using the scripts in the docker-custom directory

[luixal]

Just tried this, but both options (alpine and debian) fail in something related to the konwn_hosts.sh script:

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node-red version: 3.1.3
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[+] Building 132.4s (10/18)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              docker:default
 => [internal] load .dockerignore                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  0.0s
 => => transferring context: 2B                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    0.0s
 => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile.custom                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        0.1s
 => => transferring dockerfile: 3.59kB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             0.0s
 => [internal] load metadata for docker.io/amd64/node:18-alpine                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1.4s
 => [base  1/10] FROM docker.io/amd64/node:18-alpine@sha256:8842b060b01af71c082cee310b428a2d825e940d9fd9e450e05d726aea66a480                                                                                                                                                                                                                       6.5s
 => => resolve docker.io/amd64/node:18-alpine@sha256:8842b060b01af71c082cee310b428a2d825e940d9fd9e450e05d726aea66a480                                                                                                                                                                                                                              0.0s
 => => sha256:8842b060b01af71c082cee310b428a2d825e940d9fd9e450e05d726aea66a480 1.16kB / 1.16kB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => => sha256:f3776b60850deec9eb1da7746fa20b3f000bf153408dc896d6606704c83f948d 7.14kB / 7.14kB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => => sha256:661ff4d9561e3fd050929ee5097067c34bafc523ee60f5294a37fd08056a73ca 3.41MB / 3.41MB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     0.3s
 => => sha256:0f158788f409a5decd9495205daf4aa17df26d8219d6dc12acab5949342866fe 40.24MB / 40.24MB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   1.8s
 => => sha256:f028dff98271801e449c3ebac94a319851128c0ec687e13e00a68b2d98ec4700 2.34MB / 2.34MB                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     0.6s
 => => extracting sha256:661ff4d9561e3fd050929ee5097067c34bafc523ee60f5294a37fd08056a73ca                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          0.4s
 => => sha256:18f25c33705ddc3351cc4893fdc0a38405bdd0741643798918fa2b0146fd5a9d 451B / 451B                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         0.6s
 => => extracting sha256:0f158788f409a5decd9495205daf4aa17df26d8219d6dc12acab5949342866fe                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3.8s
 => => extracting sha256:f028dff98271801e449c3ebac94a319851128c0ec687e13e00a68b2d98ec4700                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          0.3s
 => => extracting sha256:18f25c33705ddc3351cc4893fdc0a38405bdd0741643798918fa2b0146fd5a9d                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          0.0s
 => [internal] load build context                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  0.0s
 => => transferring context: 262B                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  0.0s
 => [base  2/10] COPY scripts/*.sh /tmp/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           0.2s
 => [base  3/10] RUN set -ex &&     apk add --no-cache         bash         tzdata         iputils         curl         nano         git         openssl         openssh-client         ca-certificates &&     mkdir -p /usr/src/node-red /data &&     deluser --remove-home node &&     adduser -h /usr/src/node-red -D -H node-red -u 1000 &&    3.1s
 => [base  4/10] WORKDIR /usr/src/node-red                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         0.1s
 => [base  5/10] COPY known_hosts.sh .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             0.1s
 => ERROR [base  6/10] RUN ./known_hosts.sh /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts && rm /usr/src/node-red/known_hosts.sh                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      120.8s
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 > [base  6/10] RUN ./known_hosts.sh /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts && rm /usr/src/node-red/known_hosts.sh:
120.7 ssh-keyscan failed, no more retries left
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Dockerfile.custom:36
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  34 |     # Setup SSH known_hosts file
  35 |     COPY known_hosts.sh .
  36 | >>> RUN ./known_hosts.sh /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts && rm /usr/src/node-red/known_hosts.sh
  37 |     RUN echo "PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa" >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config
  38 |
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ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c ./known_hosts.sh /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts && rm /usr/src/node-red/known_hosts.sh" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

[hardillb]

@luixal Please do not use closed issue to report unrelated problems.

This failure implies that one of the git services we pre-populate the container with has changed their SSH keys (again). Please open a new issue and I'll look at it a little later.

[hardillb]

@luixal Also I've just run this with the head of the master branch and everything is working as expecting, so when you open the new issue please include a lot more detail about exactly what you did

[S474N]

In connection with latest-debian and especially the node.js 16 version, I have problem with the installation of NRCHKB :(

https://github.com/NRCHKB/node-red-contrib-homekit-bridged/issues/552

[hardillb]

New versions will ship with Node-RED v4.0, you can use the beta containers if needed