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Can we get a release that runs on Alpine? #4605
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Could we get an apk package for alpine linux? The main reason we don't use powershell as part of our ci/cd pipeline is that all our tasks run in alpine containers.
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SteveL-MSFT commentedon Aug 17, 2017
Are you able to use the AppImage?
JasonMorgan commentedon Aug 17, 2017
I tried and couldn't get it to work. I don't see it in their list of supported os's.
markekraus commentedon Aug 21, 2017
I took a stab at running the Appimage in Alpine. It looks like you could do it only if you have a full glibc chroot. The primary issue seems to be the musl libc that alpine uses and Appimage is made for glibc environments. It certainly increases the size of Alpine if you have to tack on a full glibc chroot to run the Appimage.
JasonMorgan commentedon Aug 28, 2017
Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) any thoughts on this? Adding an apk package would make it so I could start using it in most of my tools containers and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
SteveL-MSFT commentedon Aug 28, 2017
Jason Morgan (@JasonMorgan) Alpine isn't one of the official supported OS for corefx, so for us this isn't currently a priority. If a community PR makes it work, we'd be happy to take that change and start producing packages.
SteveL-MSFT commentedon Sep 8, 2017
Looks like Alpine is sort of supported by CoreCLR, they have a build, but it doesn't appear to be tested regularly.
markekraus commentedon Sep 8, 2017
dotnet/coreclr#917 It looks like they are still working the kinks out.
markekraus commentedon Nov 21, 2017
dotnet/dotnet-docker#22 and dotnet/announcements#49 looks like they added an alpine docker for .NET Core. https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker-samples/tree/master/dotnetapp-prod-alpine-preview so it should be theoretically possible to get a pwsh docker from that now.
JasonMorgan commentedon Dec 2, 2017
kasper3 I can confirm the install script doesn't handle alpine yet. I'm looking at building from source myself now. I'll let you know if I get it.
JasonMorgan commentedon Dec 2, 2017
So looks like you need the dotnet sdk, not just dotnet to get powershell built from source. I'll wait for dotnet 2.1 to go GA, should be January according to the release notes before trying to go through the powershell build steps again.
Also just to address your question from before,
./PowerShell/tools/install-powershell.shseems to just use the OS based package manager and doesn't support alpine yet.markekraus commentedon Dec 2, 2017
yea, for Alpine you would need to get the tool chain added manually and then build manually. at least that is my understanding.
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massimonewsuk commentedon Apr 26, 2018
Hey guys. I wanted to ask if this is ready to use yet. We basically have a dockerfile that has this at the top:
FROM node:alpineAnd I want to know if I can get powershell inside that docker image?
SteveL-MSFT commentedon Apr 26, 2018
massimonewsuk unfortunately this won't happen for Preview2, I'm planning on working on this next week
mi-hol commentedon Jul 22, 2018
Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) any news on this?
SteveL-MSFT commentedon Jul 22, 2018
Was hoping to have an Alpine release along with Preview.4. Next week we'll be working on producing a docker image release.
massimonewsuk commentedon Sep 6, 2018
Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) Hey is there any update on this?
SteveL-MSFT commentedon Sep 7, 2018
Travis Plunk (@TravisEz13) is looking at this, however, it's currently a lower priority than preparing for the GA release. Although we have updated the tooling to build PowerShell Core on Alpine, it wasn't complete as it didn't do a module restore and thus the resulting Alpine package didn't have any modules even though the engine/console worked. Travis has an idea on how to resolve this.
TravisEz13 commentedon Sep 8, 2018
I have a PR here PowerShell/PowerShell-Docker#37 for the docker image.
There are two issues:
6.1.0-fixalpine. The code is the same as6.1.0-rc.1but there were some build issues, and this is what our build system does when you build from a private branch.docker run -ittodocker run -i, but you loose tab completion.You can try my image:
docker run -it travisez13/powershell:preview-alpine-3.8Consider this highly experimental.
SteveL-MSFT commentedon Sep 14, 2018
Open new issues for for specific problems
TravisEz13 commentedon Sep 14, 2018
fyi, the container is available via
docker run -it mcr.microsoft.com/powershell:preview-alpine-3.8alexandair commentedon Sep 15, 2018
Travis Plunk (@TravisEz13) Container is available. but is practically unusable. You cannot type anything. :(
TravisEz13 commentedon Sep 16, 2018
Aleksandar Nikolić (@alexandair) Yes, but we need something to bootstrap real development. It works for automation. I mentioned this issue here: #4605 (comment)
We now need to update the build to use this image and to a PSModuleRestore.
Add Alpine Linux support (PowerShell#6367)