I am building some base Docker images for my organization to be used by applications teams when they deploy their applications in OpenShift. One of the images I have to make is an NodeJS image (we want our images to be internal rather than sourced from DockerHub). I am building on RedHat's RHEL7 Universal Base Image (ubi). However I am having trouble configuring NodeJS to work in the container. Here is my Dockerfile:
FROM myimage_rhel7_base:1.0
USER root
RUN INSTALL_PKGS="rh-nodejs10 rh-nodejs10-npm rh-nodejs10-nodejs-nodemon nss_wrapper" && \
yum install -y --setopt=tsflags=nodocs $INSTALL_PKGS && \
rpm -V $INSTALL_PKGS && \
yum clean all
USER myuser
However when I run the image there are no node or npm commands available unless I run scl enable rh-nodejs10 bash. This does not work in the Dockerfile as it creates a subshell that will not be usable to a user accessing the container.
I have tried installing from source, but I have run into a different issue of needing to upgrade the gcc/g++ versions despite them not being available in my configured repos from my org. I also figure that if I can get NodeJS to work from the package manager it will help get security patches and such should the package be updated.
My question is, what are the recommended steps to create an image that can be used to build applications running on NodeJS?
I decided in the end to install node using the binaries rather than our rpm server. Here is the implementation
FROM myimage_rhel7_base:1.0
USER root
# Get node distribution from nexus and install it
RUN wget -P /tmp http://myrepo.example.com/repository/node/node-v10.16.3-linux-x64.tar.xz && \
tar -C /usr/local --strip-components 1 -xf /tmp/node-v10.16.3-linux-x64.tar.xz && \
rm /tmp/node-v10.16.3-linux-x64.tar.xz