Michael Vorburger created FINERACT-830:
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Summary: Use distroless base image instead of bitnami/tomcat in
container
Key: FINERACT-830
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-830
Project: Apache Fineract
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Michael Vorburger
Rohit Verma on the mailing list raised using a "more hardened base image like
distroless".
I'll admit that I'm personally not a huge fan of "FROM bitnami/tomcat:7.0.94"
myself! Any contributions you'd like to make on this front would be very very
welcome, from my side.
https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless is a great alternative. (BTW
https://access.redhat.com/containers/?tab=images#/registry.access.redhat.com/redhat-openjdk-18/openjdk18-openshift
is a another great choice, if you're into something supported.)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it and work on this issue, would be
to raise a PR modifying our Dockerfile, but then still have the related test at
the end of .travis.yml pass - everything (container, Docker Compose,
Kubernetes) should, obviously, still "work as is", even if you go for changing
the base image. Makes sense and sounds fair?
PS: What we really should do at some point is move away from 1990s style
WAR-in-Tomcat, and make java -jar fineract.war work instead (and then use that
in the container)... people working on this could also contribute, before or
after, to FINERACT-730. (On a related front, there's also FINERACT-764, but
both are probably independent enough from each other to be tackled separately.)
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