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spritsail/busybox - A tiny image, nurtured from source

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This Docker base image has been custom crafted from source to provide just enough functionality in the tiniest footprint. Included in the image are the following:

Additionally, the following small utilities have been included for convenience and good container practice:

Goals for a base image

Occasionally there are opportunities where alternative standard libc implementations (musl/uclibc) won't do, like in the case of proprietary software like Plex Media Server where only pre-compiled binaries are provided which were built against the common glibc library.

(If your use-case doesn't require glibc and you can compile the program from source, we strongly recommend you use the Alpine Linux image, based on musl, which is smaller and features a full packaging system)

  • The image had to be small, whilst still being fully functional
  • It should contain a full GNU glibc implementation to support pre-compiled binaries
  • There should be enough common system tools available, either GNU coreutils or busybox
  • Optionally a pre-installed SSL library as many applications require it

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