When building a container, I personally look at the docker-alpine [1] image and see if I can just use that. Since it's musl instead of glibc, there are some inc

When building a container, I personally look at the docker-alpine [1] image and see if I can just use that. Since it's musl instead of glibc, there are some incompatibilities with things like Oracle JVM, but it's a great runtime container for dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, especially if you need some additional libraries or helper programs. Love it for quick scripting containers (like netcat) too since it downloads in line 2 seconds. [1]: https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine