Hello everyone,
As pointed out earlier this month in IRC wikimedia-k8s-sig, next week's
Kubernetes SIG meeting has already a topic that was brought in by
management and it is the usage of Alpine images in our production workloads.
Since that IRC message and today, Ben Tullis has been gracious enough to
share some information regarding that. I am summarizing below for the
group's convenience so that interested parties show up prepared
*https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303381
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303381> is the driver for this, as it
took me six months to get the upgrade to DataHub done:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329514
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329514>. The idea for alpine was just
one possible solution of how we could have gotten around the issues with
the build process described in the task above. However, now the datahub
building scripts are now effectively unforked from upstream, allowing
significant progress in building it with Blubber and Debian from pristine
sources. I am much happier with things as they are right now.*
While the immediate problem that led to this request seems to have been
addressed adequately, I think that we have much to gain as a group
discussing this as we can disseminate knowledge abouts pros and cons, in a
variety of fields, regarding the type of images we choose and document our
discussion and findings in more permanent form that can be easily referred
to in the future.
Regards,
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Alexandros Kosiaris
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation