🐳 Updated Dockerfile with alpine base image

Dockerfile

-# Based on cxxdev by Dan Liew <daniel.liew@imperial.ac.uk>
-
-FROM ubuntu:14.04
+FROM alpine:latest
 MAINTAINER Kai-Uwe Sattler <kus@tu-ilmenau.de>
-ENV CONTAINER_USER="pf"
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade && apt-get -y install wget
-
-RUN apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install \
-  aptitude \
-  software-properties-common \
-  python-software-properties \
-  bash-completion \
-  build-essential \
-  coreutils \
-  git-core \
-  htop \
-  mercurial \
-  ncdu \
-  ninja-build \
-  python \
-  python-dev \
-  python-pip \
-  subversion \
-  tmux \
-  tree \
-  unzip \
-  vim
-
-RUN add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
-RUN apt-get update
-RUN apt-get -y install gcc-5 g++-5
-RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-5 1 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-5
-
-
-# Download and install ZeroMQ
-RUN wget https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq4-1/releases/download/v4.1.5/zeromq-4.1.5.tar.gz; \
-tar xvzof zeromq-4.1.5.tar.gz && rm zeromq-4.1.5.tar.gz
-RUN cd zeromq-4.1.5 && ./configure && make install
-RUN wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zeromq/cppzmq/master/zmq.hpp && mv zmq.hpp /usr/local/include
-
-# Download and install a more recent version of CMake
-RUN wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.6/cmake-3.6.2.tar.gz ; \
-tar xvzof cmake-3.6.2.tar.gz && rm cmake-3.6.2.tar.gz
-RUN cd cmake-3.6.2 && ./configure && make && make install
-
-# Download and install the most recent version of the Boost libraries
-RUN wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.63.0/boost_1_63_0.tar.gz; \
- tar xvzof boost_1_63_0.tar.gz; \
-rm boost_1_63_0.tar.gz;
-RUN cd boost_1_63_0 && ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local/boost && mkdir /usr/local/boost && ./b2 install
-
-# Cleanup
-RUN rm -fr /boost_1_63_0 zeromq-4.1.5 cmake-3.6.2
-
-# Add non-root user for container but give it sudo access.
-# Password is the same as the username
-RUN useradd -m ${CONTAINER_USER} && \
-    echo ${CONTAINER_USER}:${CONTAINER_USER} | chpasswd && \
-    cp /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.bak && \
-    echo "${CONTAINER_USER}  ALL=(root) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
-# Make bash the default shell (useful for when using tmux in the container)
-RUN chsh --shell /bin/bash ${CONTAINER_USER}
-USER ${CONTAINER_USER}
-
-# Download an build PipeFabric
-RUN cd /home/${CONTAINER_USER} && \
-git clone http://dbgit.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/code/pfabric.git && \
-cd pfabric && mkdir build && cd build && \
-export BOOST_ROOT=/usr/local/boost; \
-cmake ../src 
 
-# RUN cd /home/${CONTAINER_USER}/pfabric/build && make VERBOSE=1 && make test
+# Installing dependencies
+RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache \
+      cmake \
+      git \
+      g++ \
+      boost-dev \
+      zeromq-dev \
+      make \
+      sudo && \
+    wget -P /usr/include/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zeromq/cppzmq/master/zmq.hpp && \
+    # Cleaning up
+    rm -rf /usr/share/doc && \
+    rm -rf /usr/share/man/?? && \
+    rm -rf /usr/share/man/??_*
+
+# Add user and allow sudo
+ENV USER pf
+ENV USERPASS pfpass
+RUN adduser -S $USER && \
+    echo "$USER:$USERPASS" | chpasswd && \
+    echo "${USER}  ALL=(root) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
+USER $USER
+WORKDIR /home/$USER
+
+
+# Download and build PipeFabric
+RUN git config --global http.sslverify false && \
+    git clone https://dbgit.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/code/pfabric.git
+# This costs too much space for the image
+#    cd pfabric && mkdir build && cd build && \
+#    cmake ../src && \
+#    make VERBOSE=1 && make test