Issue
I planning to use LaTeX in a docker environment for server-based generation of PDF-reports.
In the current test system environment I am playing around using href="https://hub.docker.com/r/narf/latex/" rel="nofollow">this docker container from the hub which seems to work quite well.
However, as stated the container's dockerfile the container is based on Ubuntu which leads to a relative huge container size compared to the functionality I really need due to Ubuntu's system overhead.
I think I can get rid of that unneeded system overhead as Docker Inc. did by using Alpine Linux instead of Ubuntu.
Unfortunately I cannot find any LaTeX packages in Alpine's repositories. I installed a non-docker based Alpine system as a virtual machine and tried:
apk update
apk search -v --description 'latex'
which did not found any related packages. In addition to that I was not able to find any further information about LaTeX packages using Google.
So, is there something like an official repository providing LaTeX for Alpine or is there a way for using e.g. the Debian/Ubuntu packages in Alpine?
Update:
There is a texlive package available. However as discussed here that seems to be broken somehow...
Update due to broken link:
The link provided above is broken. The new link to the packages overview is here.
Solution
Actually, the Ubuntu 14.04 container is only 65 MB. See https://hub.docker.com/r/library/ubuntu/tags/14.04/
So what makes the container large is texlive. You would need to find a way to install only the parts of texlive you really need for your project.
Alpine provides now texlive in the Edge branch. See https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=texlive*
You can read at https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Edge how to enable support for the Edge branch.
There is also one example of a Docker container based on Alpine linux, which might be worth to check out: https://github.com/mattmahn/docker-latex
Answered By - tmaier Answer Checked By - Terry (WPSolving Volunteer)