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Alpine Linux does not make the news (drewdevault.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I like Alpine Linux very much and use it when I am going to containerize an application in docker. It's incredibly lightweight and has a very good security history.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I recently pushed my company to move everything off of Alpine and onto Debian Slim

We had too many issues with musl that are incomprehensibly obscure and impossible to troubleshoot. Now the environment we deploy on is functionally the same to the environment our devs develop on

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The v1.2.4 release might fix up some of your issues:

This release adds TCP fallback to the DNS stub resolver, fixing the longstanding inability to query large DNS records and incompatibility with recursive nameservers that don't give partial results in truncated UDP responses. It also makes a number of other bug fixes and improvements in DNS and related functionality, including making both the modern and legacy API results differentiate between NODATA and NxDomain conditions so that the caller can handle them differently.

Not that it matters much if you've already migrated away to a libc distribution.

[–] aport 2 points 1 year ago

Now the environment we deploy on is functionally the same to the environment our devs develop on

Isn't this one of the primary benefits of Docker?

Development, CI, and deployment environments can and should be the same.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We like Alpine because it doesn't run afoul of our outbound software license to distribute container images with it.

Of course most folks aren't distributing full container images with their licensed software, so this niche probably doesn't apply to most people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well it's what alpine linux is. 😂I use it in WSL, to run podman