Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era
I've attended a local CNCF meetup where the chainguard folks presented Wolfi and their related tools to create container images and SBOMs.<p>I was already skeptical of the product, having heard of it before. Unfortunately, attending that talk confirmed to me that they've just re-invented a severely limited version of Nix powered by yaml files that can output SBOMs in a standard format.<p>Their software repository only has around 500 packages vs the 80k+ in nixpkgs. When I read "Alpine Linux", I was immediately reminded of its use of the musl libc which has endless DNS resolution issues[1][2] in and outside of Kubernetes, however, thankfully, it seems like they realized bundling musl was a bad idea and ship glibc instead.<p>I'll stick to Nix and nixpkgs to build my reproducible container images with full dependency graphs back to the source code.<p>1: <a href="https://martinheinz.dev/blog/92" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://martinheinz.dev/blog/92</a><p>2: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35058094">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35058094</a>