Make editions that install the regular alpine packages

[afbjorklund]

I made some "editions" of alpine-lima, that installs the regular packages:

• Create edition with nerdctl installed #34
• Create edition with podman installed #43
• Create edition with docker installed #45

These apk are now available upstream, making the installation smoother.

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Only added some refactoring, to make using "nerdctl-full" more explicit:

• Refactor: rename nerdctl to nerdctl-full #105
• Don't run nerdctl with suid in nc #106

To make "nerdctl" mean only nerdctl, and call the bundle "nerdctl-full"

[afbjorklund]

I'm not sure you want the actual editions in the main project:

https://github.com/afbjorklund/alpine-lima/tree/editions

Just adding the knobs and options, to make them possible...

export LIMA_INSTALL_NERDCTL_FULL=false

export LIMA_INSTALL_NERDCTL=false
export LIMA_INSTALL_CONTAINERD=false
export LIMA_INSTALL_BUILDKIT=false
export LIMA_INSTALL_PODMAN=false
export LIMA_INSTALL_DOCKER=false

[afbjorklund]

Basically these editions are a merge of template://alpine and *-rootful

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/examples/alpine.yaml

It is possible to do it with YAML, just wanted to see what the size was like:

66M	iso/alpine-lima-std-3.18.0-x86_64.iso
111M	iso/alpine-lima-pm-3.18.0-x86_64.iso
147M	iso/alpine-lima-de-3.18.0-x86_64.iso
151M	iso/alpine-lima-nc-3.18.0-x86_64.iso

Might include nerdctld for the nerdctl.sock, haven't decided (an option)

For the legacy tools that only support the "compatibility" remote socket...

[afbjorklund]

The "nerdctl-full" distribution currently requires glibc, there is no variant for musl:

• nerdctl-full: compile containerd and runc as static binaries containerd/nerdctl#266

It might offer a fully static version in the future, but the dynamic binaries are smaller...

Maybe in the future, there will also be glibc and musl dynamic variants of nerdctl-full ?

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https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/releases/tag/v1.4.0

# nerdctl (full distribution)
- nerdctl: v1.4.0
- containerd: v1.7.1
- runc: v1.1.7
- CNI plugins: v1.3.0
- BuildKit: v0.11.6
- Stargz Snapshotter: v0.14.3
- imgcrypt: v1.1.7
- RootlessKit: v1.1.0
- slirp4netns: v1.2.0
- bypass4netns: v0.3.0
- fuse-overlayfs: v1.12
- containerd-fuse-overlayfs: v1.0.6
- Kubo (IPFS): v0.20.0
- Tini: v0.19.0
- buildg: v0.4.1

The rootless containers don't work without systemd, and Alpine uses OpenRC.

Also systemd requires glibc, making it a no-go as long as it is using musl-libc...

[jandubois]

@afbjorklund Is this still the plan? Is there a point in maintaining these as ISO editions when the user could just use the regular image template and install the additional packages with apk?

Unless you plan to create and maintain the additional editions, I would suggest we close this issue.

[afbjorklund]

It is not something that I would be maintaining, so it can be scripted on top of alpine unless someone else does it...