Switch to Debian:Slim from Alpine for the docker image (#7839)

As mentioned in #7397, switching to a debian base should help with multi-arch work to save time on compiling. This is unashamedly based on #6373, but without the extra functionality. Switch python version back to generic 3.7 to always pull the latest. Essentially, keeping this as small as possible. The image is bigger though unfortunately.

changelog.d/7839.docker

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Base docker image on Debian Buster rather than Alpine Linux. Contributed by @maquis196.

docker/Dockerfile

@@ -16,35 +16,31 @@ ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.7
 ###
 ### Stage 0: builder
 ###
-FROM docker.io/python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-alpine3.11 as builder
+FROM docker.io/python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-slim as builder
 
 # install the OS build deps
 
-RUN apk add \
-        build-base \
-        libffi-dev \
-        libjpeg-turbo-dev \
-        libwebp-dev \
-        libressl-dev \
-        libxslt-dev \
-        linux-headers \
-        postgresql-dev \
-        zlib-dev
 
-# build things which have slow build steps, before we copy synapse, so that
-# the layer can be cached.
-#
-# (we really just care about caching a wheel here, as the "pip install" below
-# will install them again.)
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    build-essential \
+    libpq-dev \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+# Build dependencies that are not available as wheels, to speed up rebuilds
 RUN pip install --prefix="/install" --no-warn-script-location \
-        cryptography \
-        msgpack-python \
-        pillow \
-        pynacl
+        frozendict \
+        jaeger-client \
+        opentracing \
+        prometheus-client \
+        psycopg2 \
+        pycparser \
+        pyrsistent \
+        pyyaml \
+        simplejson \
+        threadloop \
+        thrift
 
 # now install synapse and all of the python deps to /install.
-
 COPY synapse /synapse/synapse/
 COPY scripts /synapse/scripts/
 COPY MANIFEST.in README.rst setup.py synctl /synapse/
@@ -56,20 +52,13 @@ RUN pip install --prefix="/install" --no-warn-script-location \
 ### Stage 1: runtime
 ###
 
-FROM docker.io/python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-alpine3.11
+FROM docker.io/python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-slim
 
-# xmlsec is required for saml support
-RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .runtime_deps \
-        libffi \
-        libjpeg-turbo \
-        libwebp \
-        libressl \
-        libxslt \
-        libpq \
-        zlib \
-        su-exec \
-        tzdata \
-        xmlsec
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    libpq5 \
+    xmlsec1 \
+    gosu \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 COPY --from=builder /install /usr/local
 COPY ./docker/start.py /start.py

docker/start.py

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def generate_config_from_template(config_dir, config_path, environ, ownership):
 
     if ownership is not None:
         subprocess.check_output(["chown", "-R", ownership, "/data"])
-        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
+        args = ["gosu", ownership] + args
 
     subprocess.check_output(args)
 
@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership):
         # make sure that synapse has perms to write to the data dir.
         subprocess.check_output(["chown", ownership, data_dir])
 
-        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
-        os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
+        args = ["gosu", ownership] + args
+        os.execv("/usr/sbin/gosu", args)
     else:
         os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)
 
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ def main(args, environ):
         ownership = "{}:{}".format(desired_uid, desired_gid)
 
     if ownership is None:
-        log("Will not perform chmod/su-exec as UserID already matches request")
+        log("Will not perform chmod/gosu as UserID already matches request")
 
     # In generate mode, generate a configuration and missing keys, then exit
     if mode == "generate":
@@ -236,8 +236,8 @@ def main(args, environ):
 
     args = ["python", "-m", synapse_worker, "--config-path", config_path]
     if ownership is not None:
-        args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args
-        os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args)
+        args = ["gosu", ownership] + args
+        os.execv("/usr/sbin/gosu", args)
     else:
         os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)