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2025-10-22[mod] ci: use custom static podman (#5354)Ivan Gabaldon
We only need updated podman on `build`. `test` and `release` can use image provided container engine binaries.
2025-09-23[enh] container: compact venv (#5225)Ivan Gabaldon
We can leverage the immutable nature of containers to add additional optimizations. No debugging or tinkering inside containers, so stripping all unused symbols inside `venv` should be fine. We are also going to compile the bytecode ourselves to modify some parameters related to reproducibility. With these small changes, we have reduced the `venv` layer size by 10MB~
2025-09-20[enh] container: reproducible layers (#5222)Ivan Gabaldon
* [enh] container: reproducible layers We are not aiming for reproducibility compliance, but we look to make most builder layers reproducible without caching at least for a short period of time (until the builder's base image changes or the child dependencies of a requirements.txt package are updated). This feature is only available on Podman. This targets https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/5086 main goal. * [fix] misc: apply suggestions Suggested: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/5222#discussion_r2364630496 Suggested: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/5222#discussion_r2364630511 * [enh] container: prevent useless layer
2025-09-14[enh] container: build with uv (#5199)Ivan Gabaldon
This commit replaces `pip` in container builds with `uv` pip compat with a 1:1 parity. The only thing that changes is the installation speed of the wheels, which seems to be considerably faster, although I haven't been able to properly quantify this yet. uv also gives us more tools to manage the cache. We can revert the prior cache changes in `container.yml` as we won't have duplicated wheels anymore.
2025-08-07[enh] container: tidy builds (#5086)Ivan Gabaldon
Building the container currently does not work properly. When rebuilding several times with `make container`, `version_frozen.py` is recreated, which wouldn't be an issue if the file’s timestamp was constant. Now, when creating `version_frozen.py`, it will have the same timestamp as the commit when it was created. (`version_frozen.py` is moved to a dedicated layer). Reusing "builder" cache when building "dist" could be slow (CD reports 2 seconds, but locally I've seen it take up to 10 seconds), so the Dockerfile is now split and we save a couple steps by importing the "builder" image directly. The last changes made it possible to remove the layer cache in "builder", since the overhead is now greater than building the layers from scratch. Until now, all "dist" layers were squashed into a single layer, which in most cases is a good idea (except for storage/delivery pricing/overhead), but in our case, since we manage the entire pipeline, we can ignore this and share layers between builds. This means (for example) that if we change files unrelated to the container in several consecutive commits (documentation changes), we don't have to push the entire image to registry, but only the different layers (`version_frozen.py` in this example). The same applies when pulling, as only the layers that have changed compared to the local layers will be downloaded (that's the theory, we'll see if this works as expected or if we need to tweak something else).