colstrom/alpine
Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
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Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
All tags for this image are Edge builds of Alpine Linux. They differ only in which repositories are included. If you need a stable version, alpine provides tags for those. As the intent of this image is to be a minimal base for single-service containers, tracking edge
is not expected to cause issues (packages are still stable releases, only Alpine itself is a development build).
Starting in 2.1.0
, package
is included in this image, and apk-install
is deprecated. apk-install
will be removed in 3.x
.
owner is included with this image. The ~800 bytes it adds to the image is a fair trade for the debugging time saved when you need it.
(deprecated) apk-install simplifies the "Fetch Cache", "Install Package", "Empty Cache" flow to a single step: apk-install package
.
package replaces apk-install
, serving the same purpose, but providing a generic interface across package management tools.
latest
tracks the edge
tag from upstreamThis includes the main
, testing
, and community
repositories, but all packages outside main
are masked. To import them, just use apk add package@tag
.
docker pull colstrom/alpine