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by DiabloD3 1986 days ago
So just use the glibc compat layer, or also install glibc.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Running_glibc_programs

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If you ask me, installing glibc / compat layers defeats the purpose of using Alpine, especially since Alpine ultimately only saved me ~50 MB on image size versus a similarly configured debian:slim-buster image
I use UBI minimal docker image from redhat which is based on RHEL but free from license :

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

Pretty small and has most of the things i need :

Minimal images are about 92M on disk and 32M compressed. This makes it less than half the size of the standard images.

this page really should be updated, at this point all you basically have to do is `apk add gcompat`.