Xun Zhou
Posted on June 25, 2022
I use a base-alpine-php image to build micro-service. For most of my use cases, I am going to install the following packages, if I really need them:
optional, only if I need to read/parse XML documents
- php8-xml
- php8-xmlwriter
- php8-simplexml
optional, only if I need serve the application via FastCGI
- php8-fpm
- php8-session
optional, only if I need the communication with my favorite PostgreSQL
- php8-pdo
- php8-pdo_pgsql
- php8-pgsql
optional, only if I need debug the complex PHP project
- php8-xdebug
optional, only if I need compress the documents.
- php8-zlib
- php8-phar
| Package | Description | significance |
|---|---|---|
| git |
git is required to install certain packages from source code |
✅ must |
| make |
make is required to build certain packages from source code |
✅ must |
| nano |
nano alternative lightweight editor in CLI |
optional |
| htop | a handy command-line tool that displays running processes on a Linux system in real-time | optional |
| curl |
curl is required to download certain packages |
✅ must |
| openRC |
OpenRC is the init system used in alpine. The init system manages the services, startup and shutdown of the system. |
✅ must |
| nginx |
Nginx (engine x) is an HTTP and reverse proxy server |
optional |
php8 |
PHP engine version 8 | ✅ must |
| php8-apcu |
APCu is an in-memory key-value store for PHP. APC provides both opcode caching (opcache) and object caching. |
✅ must |
| php8-ctype | this extension checks whether a character or string falls into a certain character class according to the current locale | ✅ must |
| php8-curl | this extension supports PHP to download data using curl. | ✅ must |
| php8-posix | This module contains an interface to those functions defined in the IEEE 1003.1 (POSIX.1) standards document which are not accessible through other means. | ✅ must |
| php8-tokenizer | The tokenizer functions provide an interface to the PHP tokenizer embedded in the Zend Engine. | ✅ must |
| php8-iconv |
iconv converts a string from one character encoding to another |
✅ must |
| php8-intl | It enables PHP programmers to perform UCA-conformant collation and date/time/number/currency formatting in their scripts. | ✅ must |
| php8-json | PHP has these built-in functions to encode and decode JSON data | ✅ must |
| php8-mbstring | Mbstring is an extension of php used to manage non-ASCII strings. It is non-default and need to be enabled manually. | ✅ must |
| php8-opcache | Enables the opcode cache for the CLI version of PHP | ✅ must |
| php8-openssl | This extension binds functions of OpenSSL library for symmetric and asymmetric encryption and decryption. | ✅ must |
| php8-pcntl | Process Control support in PHP implements the Unix style of process creation, program execution, signal handling and process termination. | ✅ must |
| php8-dom | The built-in DOM parser makes it possible to process XML documents in PHP. | optional |
| php8-xml | XML parser for PHP | optional |
| php8-xmlwriter | XML writer for PHP | optional |
| php8-fileinfo | FileInfo functions module can guess a content type and encoding of a file | optional |
| php8-fpm | FastCGI Process Manager is a primary PHP FastCGI implementation containing some features (mostly) useful for heavy-loaded sites. | optional |
| php8-pdo | PHP PDO is a database access layer that provides a uniform interface for working with multiple databases | optional |
| php8-phar |
phar is a very simple program for creating phar files with CLI |
optional |
| php8-pdo_pgsql | PDO_PGSQL is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO) interface to enable access from PHP to PostgreSQL databases. | optional |
| php8-pgsql | a PostgreSQL module for PHP engine | optional |
| php8-xdebug | Xdebug module for PHP | optional |
| php8-zlib | This module enables you to transparently read and write gzip (.gz) compressed files | optional |
| php8-session | The session-support in PHP consists of a way to preserve certain data across subsequent accesses. | optional |
| php8-simplexml | a very robust SimpleXML parser | optional |
| php8-soap | The SOAP extension can be used to write SOAP Servers and Clients. It supports subsets of » SOAP 1.1, » SOAP 1.2 and » WSDL 1.1 specifications | optional |
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Xun Zhou
Posted on June 25, 2022
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