DavidJFelix

Containers are great for shipping software, but sometimes you can go too far when stripping down your container to make it as small as possible. There’s a fine balance between a “no-frills” image and something impossible to debug (I’m looking at you, single binary go containers). The normal way I see people debug a running container is to docker exec -it $CONTAINER sh and install their debug tools on demand in the container. But what if your container doesn’t have /bin/sh? What if it doesn’t have a package manager? You could copy utilities into the container with docker cp and then exec into the running container but that’s also a hassle. So instead of trying to debug from within the container, a friend recently asked how you could debug from a different container. I’m not that smart so I asked much smarter people online and got a good answer back. Thanks again Justin Cormack for the reply. Let’s create a stripped down container with only caddy. First download/extract the caddy binary `$: curl https://getcad

jlongster

A lot of people mentioned other immutable JS libraries after reading my post. I thought it would be good to make a list of available ones.

There are two types of immutable libraries: simple helpers for copying JavaScript objects, and actual persistent data structure implementations. My post generally analyzed the tradeoffs between both kinds of libraries and everything applies to the below libraries in either category.

Libraries are sorted by github popularity.

Persistent Data Structures w/structural sharing

kevin-smets

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