We have been using the node:8 image as the base of our Hobnob image. However, like Elasticsearch, Node Docker images come in many flavors:
- standard: This uses buildpack-deps:jessie as its base image. buildpack-deps is an image that provides a collection of the most common build dependencies, such as the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc.gnu.org) and GNU Make (gnu.org/software/make/). The buildpack-deps:jessie image is, itself, based on the debian:jessie Debian 8 image.
- slim: This is the same as the standard image, but does not contain all the build dependencies. Instead, it only contains curl, wget, ca-certificates, and the minimal set of packages that are required to work with Node.
- stretch: This is similar to the standard ...