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Re:Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without c... by iagooar on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @06:40PM (#21758045)
> Alpine uses musl instead of glibc. That works well for most things, but not all things.

It works well until it doesn't. And screws up your whole deployment pipeline.

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Re:Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without c... by ptsneves on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:51AM (#21761010)
Never understood the whole alpine thing. I would say most sysadmins doing docker stuff do not understand the concept of what is a libc and its variants to understand the consequences of their choices. Hell I work in embedded and have worked with ulibc or musl and have been bitten quite hard. Some calls not working as expected are loads of fun. All for a few MB, when it could be done just using a proper small base image like has been suggested above.
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Re:Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without c... by techntoke on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @09:22PM (#21758997)
How so? If you have a deployment pipeline, wouldn't you just detect failures?
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