Comment by man8alexd

4 months ago

The irony is that dockerfile/yaml contains so much ugly bash code nowadays that it feels like we are back at configure/make stage.

3 comments

man8alexd

Luckily, no Dockerfile is ever as bad as old "configure" scripts were.

As long I never have to worry about configure snippets that deal with Sun's CC compiler from 1990's, or with gcc-3, I will be happy.

If you are talking about the

  RUN  foo && \
       bar && \
       baz

thing, I completely agree.

I've always wondered if there could be something like:

  LAYER
  RUN foo
  RUN bar
  RUN baz
  LAYER

to accomplish something similar, or maybe:

  RUN foo
  AND bar
  AND baz

man8alexd 4 months ago

There are also health/liveness checks, entry point code, sometimes embedded right in the Helm templates.