My current philosophy on this is use always start from scratch if I can. This would be the case where I'm using something that is statically compiled, or a sta

My current philosophy on this is use always start from scratch if I can. This would be the case where I'm using something that is statically compiled, or a standalone go binary. If I need more facilities from an OS, then I try to use a micro-distribution like Alpine. This could be because I have a more complex go binary, or if I have a python script that I want to execute. If Alpine isn't cutting it, then I go for something like Ubuntu. This is typically because Alpine doesn't have some library that I need, or because musl libc isn't behaving properly.