Nagios Core and Alpine Linux

[dadiwan]

Is there a reasonable expectation that Nagios Core can be built from source in an Alpine Linux milieu?

[tmcdonald]

In a bare-bones Alpine image (I assume you are doing this in Docker) no, it will not work. There are quite a few pre-reqs needed to compile and run Core and the plugins, as well as the Apache web server. Assuming you can get the pre-reqs installed then it should compile and run just fine, but we have not specifically tested against this. I did play around with it a little bit for our Docker container, but ended up going with a CentOS base image due to time constraints.