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Alpine is pretty nice though using it in containers you are not getting the best part of it: the hardened kernel. I'd say Alpine is a better fit for the host OS
by kylequest 11y ago
Alpine is pretty nice though using it in containers you are not getting the best part of it: the hardened kernel. I'd say Alpine is a better fit for the host OS where you have a few moving parts.
It will be great for compiled language base images, but even there it might be tricky if you rely on 3rd party packages. Libc compatibility issues are also real. It's great that they are slowing addressing them though.
- daxfohl 11y agoWouldn't CoreOS be the better host though, if just hosting containers is the only goal? Or are there things Alpine would do better?
- kylequest 11y agoI didn't mean to say Alpine is the best host OS option. It's just it's a better idea compared to Ubuntu :-)
- lisivka 11y agoCentOS will be better option for host. Why you need CoreOS?
- jjm 11y agoBeg to differ. You should read the docs for CoreOS. One OS is made to host containers, the other is more general.