[fwip]

Out of curiosity, what does alpine provide for your container that you need? (I assume otherwise you'd be using `FROM scratch`.)

[maccard]

I use wget from it for health checks [0]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47722898/how-to-do-a-doc...

[dlor]

A common gotcha is ca-certs and tzdata.

[siddontang]

yes, `FROM scratch` may be better most of the time. I just use `alphine` for many years, and have not tried `scratch` before.