Preferred method of including runtime binaries that are not available in aptitude

[zgohr]

According to this discussion which I agree with the premise of, there is no way to have Distillery include 3rd party binaries in a release.

That leaves me needing to modify the runtime to include wkhtmltopdf with my project, and the latest available package for Ubuntu 16 is 0.12.2.4 and I require the latest, 0.12.5.

Although I'm not sure exactly how, it seems I should be able to create a custom Dockerfile from this runtime stack and use it as a custom runtime. It would be fantastic to understand how to accomplish this, but I haven't tried this route yet.

The hack I have in place for now is to do it with a nasty entrypoint. This is undesired for a multitude of reasons.

runtime_config:
  packages:
    - wget
    - xfonts-75dpi
    - xfonts-base

entrypoint: wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.5/wkhtmltox_0.12.5-1.trusty_amd64.deb && dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.5-1.trusty_amd64.deb && /app/bin/myapp foreground

Is there currently a better way to accomplish this that wouldn't require creating a custom runtime?

[zeroasterisk]

Yes - you should do this in your Dockerfile and build up a custom image.

You can do that for GAE by setting up your own build:
http://go/gh/GoogleCloudPlatform/elixir-runtime/blob/master/runtime-build.sh

Or you can instead decide to host your payload on Google Kubernetes Engine.
https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/elixir-phoenix-on-kubernetes-google-container-engine

[zgohr]

Thanks, @zeroasterisk. What I'm hearing is I could fork this repository, making necessary modification in, for example, within the Dockerfile generator template Dockerfile-release.eex and use runtime-build.sh to put this customized runtime into Google Storage for use by my project.

What is the opinion of adding a runtime_scripts section, similar to build_scripts? I know this project likely needs to follow a more generic app engine project template - but if the flexibility exists and it sounds like a good idea, I'd be happy to add it.