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Its wiki does a fine job at being a pretty good resource for documentation, too, and both ArchWiki & Gentoo Wiki work well as fallbacks.
I seem to recall some pretty poor performance regressions in Docker containers versus equivalent Debian-based container configs.
This seems to be born out in multiple people's micro benchmarks though how much of an issue it is for larger applications probably depends on the workload.
https://superuser.com/questions/1219609/why-is-the-alpine-do...
https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/benchmarking-debian-vs-alpine...
We use alpine based images extensively where possible. Most popular language ecosystems and tools have an alpine option. Alpine as a base image is nice because it's nearly blank, but easy to customize unlike distroless. Recently one tool did drop Alpine, most based on it's reduced performance, and that was envoyproxy.
That used to be huge a few years ago. But with both Ubuntu and Debian shipping much smaller images, I almost always find the hassle of using Alpine not worth it.
I use it mostly as a build image in order to produce completely static binaries which isn't possible with most other distros because the glibc maintainers at some point in the distant past decided to impose their opinion on the matter upon you by making it impossible to statically link against glibc.
It's not at the same level, but it's progress...
I use it mostly as a build image in order to produce completely static binaries which isn't possible with most other distros because the glibc maintainers at some point in the distant past decided to impose their opinion on the matter upon you by making it impossible to statically link against glibc.
Doesn't Alpine have a noticeable performance penalty due to being based on musl libc instead of glibc? This seems to be born out in multiple people's micro benchmarks though how much of an issue it is for larger applications probably depends on the workload. https://superuser.com/questions/1219609/why-is-the-alpine-do... https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/benchmarking-debian-vs-alpine...