I am a techpriest enginseer.(OS Container Thread)

1. 2021-07-29 at 10:48 AM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
   And i prophecy and i prophe-sigh.
   
   You may remember this rambling thread in which i fire off a litany of toolchain names and automated containerization solutions and a bunch of other stuff no-one has ever heard of. Well the whole point of that thread was to create a single solution for all my(your[our]) OS needs through Docker automation and including other toolchains to expand those capabilities. I admit i should have put it in more succinct terms, my bad.
   
   WELL
   
   On peril of sounding like a plagiarist it turns out the fine folks over at Earthly were having a think and were working on much the same thing, although far more efficiently and organized than i was i must admit. And now we get to enjoy the fruits of their labor as they've brought it into the OSS ecosystem.
   
   Check them out, i would highly recommend it, if you're even semi-regularly working on custom Docker or container builds in general.
   
   https://earthly.dev/
   
   
   The cool thing is, the builds that you create can still be debootstrapped/debootsticked and made into bootable media if you have the know how. Which i do. But is hardly relevant to me at least because i intend to use this in my VM lab.
   
   If you're interested in the sauce The Framework itself is written in Go and they have a simplified config lang for creating builds. Which really amounts to a memorizing a couple key operations and you should be Gucci.
   
   https://github.com/earthly/earthly
   
   
   If you're reading this Earthly Devs, hats off, bottoms up, you did a great job. PM me and i'll tell you which Github account to invite on as a contributing member to your repo. I'll even brush up on my Go skills just for you <3
   
   This is good shit.
2. 2021-08-08 at 1:53 PM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Earthfiles might seem very similar to Dockerfile multi-stage builds. In fact, the same technology is used underneath. However, a key difference is that Earthly is designed to be a general-purpose build system, not just a Docker image specification.

   
   You can tell that they get this question a lot, it was the first thing that came to my mind.
   
   Thinking about it I suppose I do see the value, if you have something that involves a complex build process and isn’t a docker image. Gitlab CI is sorta similar in that it’s a docker based CI runner that you can actually run on a dev machine.
   
   It seems like a lot of overhead though. If you’re building docker images then I don’t think there’s actually a value prop here? If you’re building some other artifact you have to have a pretty complex build process before pulling in the whole docker ecosystem plus a build system on top of it seems justified.
   
   Building OSs or cross compiling prebuilts for distribution via package manager does seem like the place it would make sense though.