The small size of an image can be an actual issue. Certainly for embedded devices, probably also for clusters. For me it's mostly a non-issue. But things like

The small size of an image can be an actual issue. Certainly for embedded devices, probably also for clusters. For me it's mostly a non-issue. But things like redis or nginx work nicely with alpine as a base. And more than likely, whatever I want to containerize has already been containerized for Alpine. If not, getting something to work on Alpine may just not be worth it...