Ceph

We are interested in running ceph on Alpine Linux because Alpine is a very lightweight and minimal linux distro that makes it very suitable as a base image for running docker containers.

Currently, building on Alpine Linux fails.

This is the Dockerfile we're using:

FROM alpine

RUN echo "@testing http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing" >>/etc/apk/repositories \
  && echo "@edge-main http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main" >>/etc/apk/repositories \
  && apk update \
  && apk add bash yasm libtool util-linux-dev udev-dev automake autoconf build-base git perl keyutils keyutils-dev crypto++@testing snappy@edge-main snappy-dev@edge-main \
  && wget -O ceph.tar.gz http://ceph.com/download/ceph-9.0.2.tar.gz \
  && tar xvzf ceph.tar.gz \
  && cd ceph-9.0.2 \
  && ./autogen.sh \
  && ./configure \
  && make \
  && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*

Even though snappy and snappy-dev was installed, ./configure was not able to find them:

checking for snappy_compress in -lsnappy... no
configure: error: in `/ceph-9.0.2':
configure: error: libsnappy not found
See `config.log' for more details

It would be really awesome if ceph can be built on Alpine.