What does this PR do

This PR introduce a new image tag (name proposals: node:14-scratch, node:14-minimal, node:14-bare) which correspond to a minimal image containing only Node binary and it's dependencies (mostly the libstdc++ and musl).

The image size is 68.9MB which is 40% smaller than the 14-alpine3.10 image (117MB).

If you like the idea I will adds images for other Node version.

EDIT (2020/07/03):

This image is now based on alpine to benefits from the shell and package manager for only 5MB.
The image is 71MB.
I've renamed the image tag from scratch to bare.

Usage

This image can be used in a multi-stage build:

• from the alpine image, build the application
• from the bare image, just copy the files

FROM node:14-alpine3.10 as builder

COPY . /opt/kuzzle

RUN cd /opt/kuzzle && npm install --production

FROM node:14-bare

COPY --from=builder /opt/kuzzle /opt/kuzzle

CMD ["node", "/opt/kuzzle/bin/start-kuzzle-server"]

Why

When you go to production, you may want to deploy images containing only your application and not your build chain (npm, yarn).
Also there is a lot of unnecessary files like documentation or c headers that you don't need either.

This could allows to save a lot of disk space but also bandwidth for people deploying Node.js applications.

How

Builder image steps description:

• use the node 14 alpine 3.10 build steps to download and compile Node
• strip node binaries
• remove unnecessary files (NPM, headers, documentation, some binaries)

Then in the final image is built from alpine with only Node.js.