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Docker images used to be entirely Debian-based but have slowly become almost entirely Alpine based. A lot of Debian users have become Alpine users, and I've bee

• Macha 5y ago
  So I surveyed docker images in my personal use: Postgres (Docker provided - https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres): Debian (with alternates for alpine or other debian versions) Jellyfin (Developer provided - https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/blob/master/Dockerfile https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/blob/master/Dockerfile): They use an alpine build step but the final distributed image is debian Calibre-Web (Linuxserver provided - https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/blob/master/Dockerfile https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/blob/maste...): Ubuntu Graylog (Developer provided - https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog-docker/blob/4.2/docker/oss/Dockerfile https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog-docker/blob/4.2/docker/o...): Debian Vaultwarden (Developer provided - https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/blob/main/docker/amd64/Dockerfile https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/blob/main/docker/...): Debian (with alpine alternate available) I'm finding it hard to reconcile "Some of the software has secondary alpine images available" with "Almost all software uses alpine images" For professional use, our company mandates all images used are built off a common base image, which is Ubuntu based (my previous employer was similar, but used a Red Hat based image).
• austinshea 5y ago
  It was popular, but it has always been someone’s choice to start from someone else’s flat base.