[Blog Post] PoC Alpine Linux Minimal Stateless Pharo

Hi all,

I've written a blog post on the topic.

  https://www.samadhiweb.com/blog/2019.07.20.alpine.pharo.minimal.html

TL;DR:

- Built pharo.cog.spur.minheadless on Alpine Linux.

- Built Docker image of same: 12.5MB.

- Using 7-minimal as base, built a stateless Pharo image with SUnit and
  SQLite: ~16MB.
 
- Ran the SQLite unit tests from the command line using said
  image statelessly.

- Built Docker image of Alpine Pharo VM and a/m SQLite Pharo image: 46.8MB.

- Ran said Docker image which ran the SQLite unit tests.

Pierce

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On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 10:58:36AM -0300, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> This is very interesting. I have been playing with docker too [1] [2] [3]
> and indeed I also tried to make it work with alpine [4]. But it was

Hi Mariano,

Fun stuff!

> Anyway, I will be curious to know your progress. Would cog VM work
> correctly with musl instead of glibc?

That's what I'll find out. :-) I built the Cog VM from source on Alpine.
As written in my post said Cog VM successfully runs a minimal Pharo
image doing FFI and Fuel.

I'll be testing it with the regular image running some kind of webapp.

Pierce