Node-RED Docker Image based on Debian

In this repository, you can find the Dockerfile I developed to build a stock Node-RED container based on bitnami's minideb distribution.

The main motivation behind this is the fact that the official nodered/node-red image is based on Alpine Linux for minimal footprint. That means the standard Linux C library is musl libc. In order to build some machine learning tools such as OpenCV, glibc is the preferred standard C library.

And as such, I decided to build this image based on bitnami's minimal debian NodeJS image using the official Node-RED build-scripts, with some tweaking.

In order to build this image in your linux machine, run

./docker-debian.sh

The image can then be ran using:

source <(head -n3 ./docker-debian.sh)
docker run -it -p 1880:1880 -v node_red_data:/data --name node-red-debian node-red-minideb:${NODE_VERSION}-v${NODE_RED_VERSION}