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by kaskavalci 3384 days ago
I'm looking for a base image choice and this article helped me a lot. It seems Debian base image is a good choice so far. Alpine is quite popular lately but I'm afraid musl library may cause some headaches in the future. Is Debian to go for production use? What about other alternatives like Centos?
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jsulinski 3384 days ago
CentOS/RHEL have a very small footprint in the open source community, it seems. I was pretty surprised by this because they have such significant corporate backing, a lot of enterprise software is RHEL only, and they may be the only linux distribution currently support SCAP (required by FISMA for federal agencies).

In order, I would opt for: binary image, alpine, then debian. There are other choices like CoreOS, FreeBSD, etc. if you are comfortable moving away from linux.

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daveguy 3384 days ago
CoreOS, the distribution, is a Linux distribution. They also have a lot of container oriented tools. The distro itself is optimized for use in container management. It is also relatively lightweight for use as a container (but not as light as Alpine).
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jsulinski 3384 days ago
Good point. What I meant was comfort moving away from a major distribution.

NixOS is another distro that looks interesting.

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