Useful notes for container orchestration using docker

Use a alpine based image, it's just smaller! Except you need ubuntu, then use ubuntu.

Alpine

• Base image alpine:latest

Ubuntu

• Base image ubuntu:latest

Python

• Base image python:3.8-alpine

graphviz library

build requirements:

apk add pkgconfig graphviz graphviz-dev gcc musl-dev

Don't run as root!

run container as current user

docker -u "$(id-u):$(id -g)" ...