Post tagged: alpine

Alpine Linux Custom Interface names

This article is a copy of this article and shows how to rename/change name of a network interface. Alpine Linux uses busybox mdev to manage devices in /dev. mdev reads /etc/mdev.conf and according to mdev documentation one can define a command to be executed per device definition. The command which is going to be used to change network interface name is nameif. ...

Looking up docker image tags

This recipe is to check the tags defined for a specific Docker image in docker.hub. The basic API is at https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2 So the format is as follows: https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/{namespace}/{image}/tags/ Where: ...

Alpine Boot switcher

I boot from a USB boot drive using UEFI. Because of the UEFI boot, it just a matter of copying the files from the alpine ISO to a USB thumbdrive VFAT32 partition. Partition may be set to EFI (but this doesn't seem to be required). Since I would like to switch between different alpine versions, I wrote a script to let me have multiple alpine versions and ...

Alpine on OTC

These are just random thoughts nothing really was implemented. Alpine Linux image preparation: jq and other deps to /apks/x86_64 ...