Fabian Lee : Software Engineer

Kubernetes: container for offering NTP as a Service

June 2, 2021
Categories: Containers

Shared infrastructure services for a datacenter are usually deployed on Virtual Machines, but there is a growing opportunity to run these services as containers in a highly-available Kubernetes cluster. I have built a custom image which has a Chrony NTP daemon on a lightweight Alpine image and exposed it as a Service at port 123/udp. … Kubernetes: container for offering NTP as a Service

Docker: building an ntp server image with Alpine and chrony

June 2, 2021
Categories: Containers

If you need a lightweight NTP server, an Alpine based container image with a chrony daemon takes up minimal runtime resources and is about 8Mb in size. I have pushed ‘fabianlee/docker-chrony-alpine‘ to docker hub. The run command requires that you specify linux capabilities and a volume for the chrony.conf file, so the easiest way to … Docker: building an ntp server image with Alpine and chrony