Feature Request: Alpine linux support

[michellabbe]

I've been wanting to migrate multiple Ubuntu/Debian VMs to Alpine for years, but the one thing holding me is the lack of ncpa agent to monitor resources (especially disk space usage).

Alpine linux is pretty popular for its much reduced size compared to other common distributions, while still convenient to use.

I know I could use nrpe to monitor Alpine, but ncpa just works so much better :)

[everwatch]

Agreed. We have more and more single-purpose Alpine-based containers we're being asked to monitor and having NCPA for these would be da bomb. 💣

[aaronagios]

@michellabbe @everwatch in some people's theories it should work if you can get all the dependencies in place. I agree this would be super cool. Even with @ne-cdietsch now as the full-time NCPA maintainer internally the list of wants and needs is long-ish. I certainly would welcome any PRs related to this request.