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by bmajz 3786 days ago
While it's nice to have small on-disk containers for some applications (e.g. deployment pipelines/CI), for production, I've found that Alpine doesn't save you much in RAM. I'd love to see this become something people look at as well when evaluating base images. To me at least, this was a far more important constraint when running Docker in production.
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To be fair, the case I was testing was node, so the packages could be killing me. Could be much better for a standalone bundled application.