I personally find the package system on Alpine to be much more suited for container-like environments compared to Ubuntu. For one thing, it's trivial in Alpine

I personally find the package system on Alpine to be much more suited for container-like environments compared to Ubuntu. For one thing, it's trivial in Alpine to install a package without having to 'apt update' and remove the cache after installing. Additionally, the process of installing a bunch of build dependencies under a temporary namespace and uninstalling them after the build process is really streamlined. Mostly for these reasons I prefer a (slightly modified) Alpine base. I do at times run into musl compatibility issues, in those cases I most often fall back to Ubuntu.