debian-docker

scripts and Dockerfiles to build jmtd/debian* docker images

What I use to build jmtd/debian:* docker images on the Docker registry.

Description of images

• build: This is a sid/unstable base image, variant buildd: this includes apt, build-essential and their dependencies. It's suitable as a base image for building a Debian package, or the basis of a buildd.

• jessie: a base debian installation of jessie (current stable). Approx. 218M in size.

• wheezy: a base debian installation of wheezy (oldstable). Approx 163M in size.

• wheezy-i386: a base debian installation of the i386-architecture version of wheezy. This could be used for anything requiring a 32-bit toolchain. Approx 166M in size.

Future work

I don't want to maintain a zillion different images, but there are a few other variants that might be of use for people:

• Now jessie is released, I'll probably add jessie-i386 and phase out wheezy-i386.
• Perhaps introduce floating release tags, e.g. :stable.
• A wine base image, derived from (probably) jessie-i386.
• Possibly a base X image, with x11vnc, uxterm and a lightweight window manager. Last I checked openbox was a bit smaller than icewm.
• minimised images. As per Joey H's blog, The Debian images here are base Debian images, to avoid being misleading, but that makes them much larger than Docker's "semi-official" Debian images (twice as large). We could/should offer minimized images, starting with --variant=minbase but also incorporating other things, such as some of the techniques used by emdebian. Just so long as we clearly label them as being modified from stock Debian.

Further Reading

what does docker.io run -it debian sh run? by Joey Hess, which recommends only trust docker images you build yourself.

— Jonathan Dowland jmtd@debian.org