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by still_grokking 1127 days ago
I would strongly avoid Alpine.

Most software isn't written with Musl in mind! And that shows.

You can run in all kinds of extremely hard to debug issues and especially massive performance problems. Stuff may slow down to fractions of the performance comparison to regular Linux distros.

If you want maximal small containers go with Distroless.