GoogleContainerTools distroless / Issue #1350

This repository contains the source for building the demo project used to demonstrate the issue above. As per the issue description:

Following up on Issue #183 regarding implementation of Docker HEALTHCHECK within a distroless image, the accepted solution no longer appears to work.

As per one of the closing comments back in March, adding wget to a distroless image could be used to implement Docker HEALTHCHECK like so: COPY --from=busybox:1.36.0-musl /bin/wget /usr/bin/wget

However, this does not appear to work with the following distroless container images I have tested:

• gcr.io/distroless/base:latest
• gcr.io/distroless/base:nonroot
• gcr.io/distroless/java17-debian11:nonroot

In order to build the program, the following is required

• Docker Engine
• A working Internet connection (to download all library dependencies required to build the program).

    $ ./gradlew buildDockerImage composeUp

You can also skip buildDockerImage step and run composeUp which simply pulls the public image directly from DockerHub.

    $ ./gradlew buildDockerxImage composeUp

You can also invoke docker-compose directly from the project directory using: docker-compose up -d to start a container in the background (detached mode). You will then need to check the status of the container until it becomes unhealthy (usually a couple of minutes): docker ps -a.

To stop a local container using docker-compose:

    $ ./gradlew composeDown

• Docker Reference
• GoogleContainerTools/distroless