[ale] Docker containers as a desktop environment

[Alex Carver]

Yes but not what I'm asking.  You're still pulling from a public
repository.  I'm talking about making a container totally from scratch,
no public repositories.

On 2018-04-08 12:13, tosh noway wrote:
> https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/
> 
> FROM alpine:lastest
> RUN echo “hello from docker”
> 
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 3:32 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>> One thing I haven't been able to find is how to create a docker
>> container in the first place from scratch.  Every tutorial has you
>> downloading someone's container from somewhere.
>>
>> If I wanted to experiment with running let's say a browser within a
>> container on any OS, where can you go to find out how to build all of
>> that?  At the moment I just spin up VM's but if containers really are a
>> little lighter on the system than a full VM, I wouldn't mind trying it
>> out just for browsers.
>>
>> It seems to me, though, there's a slight inflexibility in the docker
>> method versus VM method in terms of updating and/or modifications.  For
>> example, if I create a brand new VM, install a bare OS and then install
>> the browser, I can possibly go back in later and add something I forgot
>> (e.g. Java, flash, etc.) just by using the guest OS's install methods.
>> The new data is merged in right away and the next time I start that VM
>> those changes are made.  My understanding with the Docker method is that
>> everything has to be installed either in the original image or on the
>> fly by the docker container script as the image starts but, again, this
>> is relying on someone else's docker-ready stuff.
>>
>> If anyone has pointers on this kind of thing I'd like to see them and
>> try it out.
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