[kylequest]

One word... libc :-) There's tons of info on the internet about the gotchas in Alpine. Even fly.io gave up on using/supporting Alpine based container images and they are probably one of the most competent and capable engineering teams out there.

[saidinesh5]

Honestly I didn't know that. I have only used alpine based images for some pure python webservers and was fairly happy with the size and no bugs so far. So what is the go to distro for base image for containers these days? Ubuntu-minimal?

And yeah libc was a pain for us even for AppImages. You'd think that something as fundamental as C library would be standardized on Unixes...

[kylequest]

Alpine's libc is intentionally non-standard* and Alpine (at least, some of their members) explicitly state that Alpine is not GNU Linux while most other distros people use are :)

distroless is picking up a lot of interest especially with its recent uptick in its adoption in the kubernetes community.