How to install Nodejs 8.12 in alpine:3.8?
The question already answered but today I was facing issue so this is how i build with nodejs 8 in Alpine
FROM alpine:3.8RUN apk add --no-cache --repository http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/main/ nodejs=8.9.3-r1
You can find node 8 in Alpine repo v3.7
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=nodejs&branch=v3.7
you can find node version details here, branch convention is v3.x
Taking references from : https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node
FROM alpine:3.8ENV NODE_VERSION 8.12.0RUN addgroup -g 1000 node \ && adduser -u 1000 -G node -s /bin/sh -D node \ && apk add --no-cache \ libstdc++ \ && apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \ binutils-gold \ curl \ g++ \ gcc \ gnupg \ libgcc \ linux-headers \ make \ python \ # gpg keys listed at https://github.com/nodejs/node#release-team && for key in \ 94AE36675C464D64BAFA68DD7434390BDBE9B9C5 \ FD3A5288F042B6850C66B31F09FE44734EB7990E \ 71DCFD284A79C3B38668286BC97EC7A07EDE3FC1 \ DD8F2338BAE7501E3DD5AC78C273792F7D83545D \ C4F0DFFF4E8C1A8236409D08E73BC641CC11F4C8 \ B9AE9905FFD7803F25714661B63B535A4C206CA9 \ 56730D5401028683275BD23C23EFEFE93C4CFFFE \ 77984A986EBC2AA786BC0F66B01FBB92821C587A \ 8FCCA13FEF1D0C2E91008E09770F7A9A5AE15600 \ ; do \ gpg --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys "$key" || \ gpg --keyserver hkp://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$key" || \ gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 --recv-keys "$key" ; \ done \ && curl -fsSLO --compressed "https://nodejs.org/dist/v$NODE_VERSION/node-v$NODE_VERSION.tar.xz" \ && curl -fsSLO --compressed "https://nodejs.org/dist/v$NODE_VERSION/SHASUMS256.txt.asc" \ && gpg --batch --decrypt --output SHASUMS256.txt SHASUMS256.txt.asc \ && grep " node-v$NODE_VERSION.tar.xz\$" SHASUMS256.txt | sha256sum -c - \ && tar -xf "node-v$NODE_VERSION.tar.xz" \ && cd "node-v$NODE_VERSION" \ && ./configure \ && make -j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) \ && make install \ && apk del .build-deps \ && cd .. \ && rm -Rf "node-v$NODE_VERSION" \ && rm "node-v$NODE_VERSION.tar.xz" SHASUMS256.txt.asc SHASUMS256.txtENV YARN_VERSION 1.9.4RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps-yarn curl gnupg tar \ && for key in \ 6A010C5166006599AA17F08146C2130DFD2497F5 \ ; do \ gpg --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys "$key" || \ gpg --keyserver hkp://ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$key" || \ gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 --recv-keys "$key" ; \ done \ && curl -fsSLO --compressed "https://yarnpkg.com/downloads/$YARN_VERSION/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz" \ && curl -fsSLO --compressed "https://yarnpkg.com/downloads/$YARN_VERSION/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz.asc" \ && gpg --batch --verify yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz.asc yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz \ && mkdir -p /opt \ && tar -xzf yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz -C /opt/ \ && ln -s /opt/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION/bin/yarn /usr/local/bin/yarn \ && ln -s /opt/yarn-v$YARN_VERSION/bin/yarnpkg /usr/local/bin/yarnpkg \ && rm yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz.asc yarn-v$YARN_VERSION.tar.gz \ && apk del .build-deps-yarnCMD [ "node" ]