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As far as I understand, most people use alpine in docker containers due to it's being quite lightweight with a decently large number of packages. I personally
by npmaile 7y ago
As far as I understand, most people use alpine in docker containers due to it's being quite lightweight with a decently large number of packages.
I personally use it directly on the hardware on my personal server and I love it. It's all the fun and flexibility of a minimal system like arch, with all the simplicity of upstart.
Also it takes about 2 minutes to install, which is helpful for setting up testing environments.
- mobiledude 7y agoThank you and other posters for your answers. Will try it out.
- fmajid 7y agoSame here (home server on bare metal). The simplicity, hardening and lack of unnecessary cruft means a much smaller attack surface than, say, Ubuntu. It reminds me of OpenBSD that way.