Hi Leif, Thanks for the response. This is certainly something that we would be interested in pursuing and contributing if successful.
One thing I don’t understand. How would the plugins work in this scenario (the .so files)? Would we need to statically link the set of plugins we’d want available in the final traffic_server executable? Or would plugins simply not be supported in this model? Thanks Nick From: Leif Hedstrom <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at 6:02 PM To: Users <[email protected]>, Nick Dunkin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Building Traffic Server - static linking On Jan 4, 2022, at 12:41 PM, Nick Dunkin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi We are wanting to deploy Traffic Server in a Docker container, and would like to achieve the smallest possible container size. Is it possible to build Traffic Server with static linking, so that we can run a single executable in a distroless container? That “option” was removed quite a while ago unfortunately. If someone is interested in making it viable again, we’d certainly take a PR. This should (in theory) not require any code changes, rather, just changes to (optionally) control static builds via configure.ac and the various Makefile.am’s. Cheers, — Leif
