Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution built around musl libc and BusyBox. The image is only 5 MB in size and has access to a package repository that is much more complete than other BusyBox based images. This makes Alpine Linux a great image base for utilities and even production applications.
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> For comparison, here’s how Alpine compares to other popular distributions of Linux:
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> DISTRIBUTION VERSION SIZE
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> Debian Jessie 123MB
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> CentOS 7 193MB
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> Fedora 25 231MB
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> Ubuntu 16.04 118MB
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> Alpine 3.* 4.98MB
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For comparison, here’s how Alpine compares to other popular distributions of Linux:
DISTRIBUTION VERSION SIZE
Debian Jessie 123MB
CentOS 7 193MB
Fedora 25 231MB
Ubuntu 16.04 118MB
Alpine 3.* 4.98MB
Difference in size. Alpine is about 30x smaller than Debian.
Is there a best practice on setting up glibc on docker alpine linux base image?