Couchnode docker and alpine image

Node.js SDK
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I have a docker image to run node and i have couchbase as one of it’s dependency. Image build fine. Except I’m getting:
app-0 Error: Error loading shared library /usr/src/node-app/node_modules/couchbase/build/Release/couchbase_impl.node: Exec format error

When I attach into the running image and npm install couchbase manually. I can passby the error message.

I can’t see any reason why would the docker build command is building a different version of couchbase native binding? All this is done on the same machine.

Anyone have any success with couchnode and docker?
I am using https://hub.docker.com/r/risingstack/alpine/tags/ as the base image
I’m using mac os x to develop

Thanks in advance!
Andrew

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Hey @andrewvmail,

It appears that you are installing the couchnode module using a different platform or binary version of Node.js, and then copying it to another system. Due to the fact that there is an underlying C extension being used, we unfortunately do not support this situation natively, and the module must be reinstalled.

Cheers, Brett

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Hi Brett, it turned out the problem was alpine base image is too minimal
for couchbase build process to successfully complete the build. It looked
like I had something but turned out its a half baked artifact. When I use
node base image it worked.

Cheers