Application Dependencies
Intro
- Applications often require system dependencies
- OpenSSL, etc. - not service dependencies
- For your developer experience and application deployment you should enumerate them
Why This Matters
- For security and compliance you'll need to know your dependencies
- For building effective docker containers for deployment
- Easy bootstrapping of development environments
Our Recommendation
- Track your dependencies in a file
- Use Alpine to install them in the container
How To Do It
- Find your deps in alpine
- Write them to a file
- Use APK to install them in your container
Alternatives/Notes
- Use nix
- use ubuntu or brew or whatever