It’s pruned down to a very small size. Occupies only a couple mb on disk. By default leaves out a bunch of features that are unnecessary for a container base image.
You could then theoretically just use something as Void Linux with GlibC, or Gentoo with GlibC, or something like that. Even a minimal Arch Linux image.
Nothing theoretical about this, I’ve just stopped making images with alpine, 200MB of storage won’t change anything (can be optimized really) and a lot less weird problems.
It will change everything if you don’t have a big (in capacity, not in physical size, lol) disk. Even worse with the current crisis on hardware prices.
Not really, per gigabyte price is still very low for both ssds and hdds, and container images are layered, so if you make the containerfiles correctly additional size is minimal and comes to depencies and application itself.
What’s the alpine advantage here?
It’s pruned down to a very small size. Occupies only a couple mb on disk. By default leaves out a bunch of features that are unnecessary for a container base image.
Huh! Good to know, ty
You can get weird problems due to musl when trying to use alpine with software that wasn’t expecting it, what else would you want?
You could then theoretically just use something as Void Linux with GlibC, or Gentoo with GlibC, or something like that. Even a minimal Arch Linux image.
Nothing theoretical about this, I’ve just stopped making images with alpine, 200MB of storage won’t change anything (can be optimized really) and a lot less weird problems.
It will change everything if you don’t have a big (in capacity, not in physical size, lol) disk. Even worse with the current crisis on hardware prices.
Not really, per gigabyte price is still very low for both ssds and hdds, and container images are layered, so if you make the containerfiles correctly additional size is minimal and comes to depencies and application itself.
Say this to, i.e., any Latin American, or Indian, or Southeast-Asian person, and they’ll kill you lmao.
Actually, I’m Venezuelan, so I’m Latin American; so, sorry, loads his imaginary gun, it’s nothing personal, just life’s law… Pew pew!