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Re:Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stac... by johnpython on Sunday January 31, 2021 @09:52AM (#25979223)
For running applications in production, Alpine Linux is harmful and should be avoided. Getting a smaller container image is not worth trading mucl for glibc.
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Re:Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stac... by kingosticks on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:46AM (#25980069)
To a Docker outsider, to me this implies that Alpine for testing and non-Alpine for production is not harmful. Is that right? Wasn't having a unified environment half the point of using Docker? Doesn't two different base systems just open you up to a load of headaches? If so, then isn't it more of a "Alpine Linux as a Docker base is harmful" situation?
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