One other question, how does this handle scripts that Koha specifically does not execute using plack?
Kyle --- http://www.kylehall.info ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 6:43 AM Kyle Hall <kyle.m.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is fantastic Julian! The only thing I can contribute that hasn't > already been said by you or David is to suggest taking a look at MiniDeb as > a base image ( https://github.com/bitnami/minideb ). I would also suggest > using quay.io to build and host your Docker images, as it has built in > security scanning. I prefer minimal install images not for size reduction ( > though it is nice ), but for the smaller attack surface they provide. Fewer > things installed means fewer exploits available! > > Kyle > > --- > http://www.kylehall.info > ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com ) > Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org ) > Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 12:59 PM Julian Maurice < > julian.maur...@biblibre.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been playing with docker lately, and I tried to build a minimal >> docker image for Koha. Here are the results. >> >> My goals were: >> * Install only required "things" to get Koha up and running, and nothing >> else (no testing or dev tools), >> * No external dependencies except CPAN >> * Follow Docker best practices as much as possible >> >> The resulting images are here: >> https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/julianmaurice/koha >> >> and the Dockerfiles are here: >> https://github.com/jajm/koha-docker >> >> A few things worth mentioning: >> >> * I tried to build the smallest image possible by using alpine or perl >> slim images at first but it was not that great, because the perl version >> shipped with those images is missing some libs, which cause >> MARC::Charset to build a database of several hundreds MBs (which is only >> 5MBs with a standard perl version). So I chose a more standard image >> (debian:buster) as base. >> >> * Koha doesn't work well when running with a perl version different than >> the system perl installed in /usr/bin/perl. For example, the >> updatedatabase doesn't work when called from the web installer. This is >> because Perl scripts are called directly as executable files, and >> shebangs contain '/usr/bin/perl'. Same problem from >> misc/translator/translate which calls tmpl_process3.pl. >> >> * I tried to make the Koha installation as self-contained as possible. >> Almost everything is installed as a non-root user in /home/koha, >> including Perl dependencies. >> >> * It doesn't need a reverse proxy such as apache or nginx. The necessary >> URL rewriting is handled in PSGI file. The container expose two ports, >> one for intranet, the other one for OPAC. >> >> * Each Perl dependency is installed in its latest version, so expect >> things to break. I can only confirm that the webinstaller, basic >> cataloguing and search/indexation work. I did not test anything else. >> >> * There are docker-compose.yml files in the github repository to get >> Koha running quickly with mariadb, memcached and elasticsearch. >> >> * Zebra is not installed >> >> * Images weigh ~1.15GB uncompressed (koha sources included) >> >> If you made it this far, thanks for reading :) >> And if you want to use these docker images, you should start by reading >> https://github.com/jajm/koha-docker/blob/master/README.md >> >> -- >> Julian Maurice >> BibLibre >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org >> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ >> git : http://git.koha-community.org/ >> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ >> >
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