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I started using Alpine a couple of weeks ago. Really curious what sorts of problems you've encountered. The only big one for me so far is the change to DNS reso

• mdaniel 12y ago
  I was using it for hosting a Scrapy spider, which is Python 2.7 using twisted and a whole host of cryptography native libs (that I compiled against Alpine, I'm just listing them to provide the situation for the issue). The requests would leave the machine, but it seemed none of the handlers were firing with the result. I thought, ok, perhaps I've made a configuration mistake or the target website is acting funny. After 3 hours of inserting every kind of debugging print and log statement I could think of, I decided to sanity check the setup using debian:wheezy. As my post above implied, it worked immediately and flawlessly. Thus: it may work great for you, but ensure their libraries and binaries are a good fit for your situation. I did see quite a few other comments discussing Python, Ruby and other not-easily-statically-compilable stacks may not be a good fit for the system the article was proposing, so this may not strictly be Alpine's fault. It's just when I see a discussion of the great savings from using Alpine, I feel it's important to remind folks there is no free lunch.
  • Gigablah 12y ago
    That's true. In my case I had plenty of tests for my application (that I ran inside the container environment) so I felt safe to proceed.