We use Prisma purely for the migration tools, but our stack is Golang. Currently we can't easily switch to using a scratch image (empty OS without any of the tools) because we need to install Node.js to execute

prisma migrate deploy

before the app starts up - is there a way to just grab the Rust binary directly and execute that?

an approach you can take is to have a container that runs before the application just for DB migration and potentially other pre tasks.. ie, in k8s there is the concept of [init containers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/init-containers/) for this exact same purpose

Technically you could “grab the Rust binary directly and execute that” but you would be on your own here The best alternative at the moment I think, would be to use https://github.com/vercel/pkg So you can package the CLI as an executable:

npx pkg node_modules/prisma -t node14-linux
./prisma --version

Though you have a good point here that it’s something that is not currently mentioned anywhere and I think creating a feature request for this would be amazing if you have a minute 😃

ah okay, these all seem a bit too over-engineered for our simple setup, we'll keep the Node process in our image for now