Include Debian Slim image

[jaztec]

I like the small size of the Alpine image but within some project I really miss full blown features (like /dev/log for instance).

In my opinion a Debian Slim image could really by a useful midway between Alpine and full Debian, it would not diminish the right of existence for an Alpine image (can think of loads of uses there) however it would add uses for programs that are just a bit to intensive for the bare-bones Alpine installments but also don't justify a complete Debian installment either (scaling). I've looked up the base templates for the Debian setup and reiterated the request there as well: docker-library/buildpack-deps#99

Please consider adding a Debian like Slim package to the available Golang images. And of course, I do not mind contributing

[tianon]

I'm not sure I understand what /dev/log has to do with Alpine, or any Docker image for that matter? /dev/log is typically a unix socket created by some user-mode application (like syslog-ng, systemd-journald, etc), not a feature of the distribution. 😕

I think the general consensus for usage of this repo is that it typically wouldn't be your runtime base and you'd use it more for building your project and then copying the resulting binary into a separate image that's FROM debian:xxx-slim, for example. (Using Docker's multi-stage builds make this especially easy to accomplish.)

[hazcod]

How about replacing the debian image with the slim variant?

[jaztec]

Excuse me, it was a misunderstanding from my side. I'll close the issue

[anarcat]

I think the general consensus for usage of this repo is that it typically wouldn't be your runtime base and you'd use it more for building your project and then copying the resulting binary into a separate image that's FROM debian:xxx-slim, for example. (Using Docker's multi-stage builds make this especially easy to accomplish.)

I still feel it would be worth using debian's slim images for this. What exactly do we need from the main debian image here that couldn't be accomplished with the slim images?

[tianon]

There's nothing that couldn't be accomplished with the slim images, but rather that we'd then have to duplicate the list of installed SCMs from buildpack-deps:bullseye-scm (which is what we're currently FROM).

(See also #427 where this is being actively discussed again.)