Hi Krishna, I am still finding it difficult to evaluate this choice. A couple of things would help:
1. How much smaller is the alpine image compared to the best alternative? 2. Is there any performance impact of going with Alpine? Ismael On Wed, Nov 22, 2023, 8:42 AM Krishna Agarwal <krishna0608agar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ismael, > Thanks for the feedback. > > The alpine image does present a few drawbacks, such as the use of musl libc > instead of glibc, the absence of bash, and reliance on the less popular > package manager "apk". Considering the advantage of a smaller image size > and installing the missing packages(glibc and bash), I have proposed the > alpine image as the base image. Let me know if you have any suggestions. > I have added a detailed section for the same in the KIP. > > Regards, > Krishna > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 8:08 PM Ismael Juma <m...@ismaeljuma.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > One question I have is regarding the choice to use alpine - it would be > > good to clarify if there are downsides (the upside was explained - images > > are smaller). > > > > Ismael > > > > On Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 12:17 AM Krishna Agarwal < > > krishna0608agar...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I want to submit a KIP to deliver an experimental Apache Kafka docker > > > image. > > > The proposed docker image can launch brokers with sub-second startup > time > > > and minimal memory footprint by leveraging a GraalVM based native Kafka > > > binary. > > > > > > KIP-974: Docker Image for GraalVM based Native Kafka Broker > > > < > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-974%3A+Docker+Image+for+GraalVM+based+Native+Kafka+Broker > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Krishna > > > > > >
