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The base image may be small, but all the packages and metadata are large, and the dependencies are many. Alpine always leans to conservative options and intenti
by peterwwillis 7y ago
The base image may be small, but all the packages and metadata are large, and the dependencies are many. Alpine always leans to conservative options and intentionally removes mostly-unnecessary things. So average image sizes are higher with an Ubuntu base compared to Alpine.