What is Alpine Image? – The Story Wire

Hello to all the readers!

While I was learning Docker, I could see that in most of the places, alpine image of Node.js or Golang is used. Therefore, I went and studied what is an alpine image.

The alpine docker image is based on Alpine linux. It is a very small, minimal image with complete packages. And see what it is only 5 MB in size.

This is the official link of the image https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine/.

Alpine Linux uses musl, libc and busybox instead of using glibc, GNU core utils and systemd. Such linux distros become heavy.

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