Sentry-cli: Support Alpine

[mrmckeb]

As the CLI is a dependency of https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-webpack-plugin, we've been pulling the binary from your docker container, hosting that, and then passing in our host with the new SENTRYCLI_CDNURL environment variable. We've also used Yarn's resolutions feature to pin to the latest release for now.

This is fine, but it makes updates a little more painful, and I think other users are likely to face this in future.

Could the binary from that container be automatically attached to releases here?

CC @TheDen

[jan-auer]

Hi @mrmckeb, it's definitely on our roadmap!

[TheDen]

@jan-auer

When using SENTRYCLI_CDNUR, we use a script that copies out the sentry-cli alpine binary from sentry's docker hub repo. Perhaps it may be useful for your automated releases.

```#!/bin/bash

tag is either a specific version or "latest"

tag=1.28.3
docker pull getsentry/sentry-cli:$tag
ID=$(docker create getsentry/sentry-cli:$tag)
docker cp $ID:/bin/sentry-cli .
```

[jan-auer]

So, we have recently changed the alpine build and want to completely replace the current linux builds with the alpine one. However, I still haven't looked into cross-building 32bit in the musl container.

After that, both the NPM package and GitHub releases for linux will work on alpine just like any other currently supported distribution.

[TheDen]

awesome 👍

[mwarkentin]

Getting sentry-cli added to the alpine package repository at that point would be amazing too... apk add sentry-cli

<3

[JalilArfaoui]

This seems to block https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cli/issues/281 and https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-webpack-plugin/issues/44

[byCedric]

This is sort of blocking for us too since we moved to lightweight pipeline images. Is there an existing workaround e.g. prebuilt alpine 3.7 binary usable through NPM?

[Kamshak]

@byCedric you can do

in package.json

"resolutions": {
    "@sentry/cli": "1.30.4"
  },

in your dockerfile/CI

SENTRYCLI_CDNURL=https://cdn.rawgit.com/Kamshak/packages/0cd95c30 yarn

[byCedric]

You are my hero @Kamshak, thanks I will try this out in a couple of hours!

[tonyo]

Hey everyone,
Thanks for your input.
We've released a new version of sentry-cli today (1.31.0), and we now provide static binaries for Linux built against musl, thanks to https://github.com/messense/rust-musl-cross
This means that those binaries (both 32- and 64- bit) should work on most of Linux distributions (including Alpine) without any additional libraries.

Release page: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cli/releases/tag/1.31.0