This is a timely post! We're actually working on merging Distroless with Alpine for the best of both worlds. You can check out some of the progress in Apko and

This is a timely post! We're actually working on merging Distroless with Alpine for the best of both worlds. You can check out some of the progress in Apko and the new Distroless GitHub org. https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko http://github.com/distroless http://github.com/distroless Blog post: https://blog.chainguard.dev/introducing-apko-bringing-distroless-nirvana-to-alpine-linux/ https://blog.chainguard.dev/introducing-apko-bringing-distro... Disclosure: I helped start the Distroless project years ago and now work at Chainguard.