Conceptually there is a lot to like about Alpine. But the problem is, as much as I want to like it and use it, there have always been rough edges to it. By and

Conceptually there is a lot to like about Alpine. But the problem is, as much as I want to like it and use it, there have always been rough edges to it. By and far, the biggest beef I kept on returning to with Alpine is the whole musl libc thing. Not because that's what they ship with, because well, "my house my rules" as the saying goes. But because the maintainers insisted on building various packages where the original external code developers stated quite clearly in their build guides that they didn't support anything other than glibc .... and yet Alpine would build and ship packages built against musl. Bit of a dangerous game to play if you ask me ! This was not random small external code bases either, we're talking about some quite well known open source projects here. I'm not sure if they still have the same "musl or bust" package building policy these days as its been a few years since I quit using Alpine for good. Hopefully they've changed their ways since then.