The alpine userspace is also great to run in containers my LXC container basically runs up DHCP to get an IP and a SSH server to provide a remote shell, everyt

The alpine userspace is also great to run in containers my LXC container basically runs up DHCP to get an IP and a SSH server to provide a remote shell, everything else is per-server setup like webservers and stuff, compared to the ubuntu containers I run Alpine uses a LOT less memory and CPU.