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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by cs02rm0 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:59PM (#19862319)
Because it's tiny, I tend to default to Alpine and then move away from it where necessary. Rather than worrying about potential CPU performance requirements upfront - premature optimisation and all that.
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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by mikepurvis on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:22PM (#19862510)
Isn't there an argument that using Alpine instead of something like Ubuntu is premature optimization for space?
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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by akvadrako on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:25PM (#19863130)
It's faster in terms of development time. Faster to install packages and to push to docker repos.
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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by icebraining on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @06:11PM (#19863474)
Why? You should only need to push the base image once. Then only upper layers will have to be pushed.
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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by emilfihlman on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:33PM (#19862625)
Making it smaller than necessary is a bigger premature optimisation, though. Rather than worrying about potential disk space issues upfront just use glibc and everything works fast and fine.
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