Re:Setting Up a Software Development Environment on Alpine L...
by jcrites on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:58PM
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> I'd be interested to hear what the Alpine maintainers think of their biggest user...
The creator of Alpine Linux, Natanael Copa, reportedly went to work for Docker, so presumably Natanael thinks it's a reasonable use-case. Solomon Hykes, Docker's CTO at the time, posted about it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11000827
Alpine Linux, as I understand it, strives to be a lightweight and minimalist distribution of Linux. That's exactly what you'd want to run as a container, assuming you are going to run a Linux distribution and one that's different than the production host system.
The creator of Alpine Linux, Natanael Copa, reportedly went to work for Docker, so presumably Natanael thinks it's a reasonable use-case. Solomon Hykes, Docker's CTO at the time, posted about it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11000827
Alpine Linux, as I understand it, strives to be a lightweight and minimalist distribution of Linux. That's exactly what you'd want to run as a container, assuming you are going to run a Linux distribution and one that's different than the production host system.