Alpine is one of the unsung heroes of the container world. It's insane how much value Natanael Copa has created & shepherded over the years (decades?). Recently

Alpine is one of the unsung heroes of the container world. It's insane how much value Natanael Copa has created & shepherded over the years (decades?). Recently came upon an interview with him and it was the first time I saw the creator behind Alpine Linux[0]. Similarly, the musl libc project, just chugging along, giving most projects that build on top of it an easy out for portable static binaries. Thank you for those links, I am about to gobble up those blog posts -- I recently went on a benchmarking kick[1] and diskless alpine instantly struck me as the perfect server setup. ECC memory + running from ram would give me full use (to put in RAID/whatever else) of the NVMe drives, it's something I'm going to try out as soon as I get a chance to. I am so interested in the infrastructure space, I know exactly two hosting providers that will give me PXE level access (so I could use something like tinkerbell[2]): - OVH [3][4] - Vultr[5] - LeaseWeb[6] Unfortunately my personal favorite hosting provider, Hetzner[7] (I fell in love the moment I came across the robot marketplace) does not offer it yet, though I've automated going through their rescue system at this point so it's OK. [0]: https://www.tfir.io/meet-the-creator-of-alpine-linux-natanael-copa/ https://www.tfir.io/meet-the-creator-of-alpine-linux-natanae... [1]: https://vadosware.io/post/k8s-storage-provider-benchmarks-round-2-part-5/ https://vadosware.io/post/k8s-storage-provider-benchmarks-ro... [2]: https://docs.tinkerbell.org/ https://docs.tinkerbell.org/ [3]: https://github.com/gmasse/ovh-ipxe-customer-script https://github.com/gmasse/ovh-ipxe-customer-script [4]: https://geekgonecrazy.com/2020/09/07/tinkerbell-or-ipxe-boot-on-ovh/ https://geekgonecrazy.com/2020/09/07/tinkerbell-or-ipxe-boot... [5]: https://www.vultr.com/docs/ipxe-boot-feature https://www.vultr.com/docs/ipxe-boot-feature [6]: https://kb.leaseweb.com/products/dedicated-server/installing-servers-using-your-own-pxe-boot-environment https://kb.leaseweb.com/products/dedicated-server/installing... [7]: https://www.hetzner.com https://www.hetzner.com