Minimal RevPi3 OS-image
Posted: 23 Oct 2018, 22:10
It would be nice if there is a very minimal RevPi OS-image. In our situation we have a RevPi3 with some modules which are controlled with Python.
In a production environment we want only the minimum of the OS with the needed packages. Because it makes the attack-vector smaller but also updating way easier. And it saves space.
So is it possible to create an OS-image with only the minimum amount of packages needed to run?. Only include SSH and Python, no graphical environment or something else. This means even if it is possible remove PiCtory and the webserver, so creating a configuration-file have to be done on another system (maybe with IDs etc from that specific system) (cloud service from Kunbus?) and then moved via SSH to the RevPi. It seems a lot of work, but mostly you do it once for a system.
In a production environment we want only the minimum of the OS with the needed packages. Because it makes the attack-vector smaller but also updating way easier. And it saves space.
So is it possible to create an OS-image with only the minimum amount of packages needed to run?. Only include SSH and Python, no graphical environment or something else. This means even if it is possible remove PiCtory and the webserver, so creating a configuration-file have to be done on another system (maybe with IDs etc from that specific system) (cloud service from Kunbus?) and then moved via SSH to the RevPi. It seems a lot of work, but mostly you do it once for a system.