Alpine has been incredible for some of my more esoteric use cases.
On amd64 desktop/server I still default to Ubuntu. For Docker my image base is usually Alpine.
But what’s really amazing is that recently I’ve transferred more and more functionality to my Nvidia Jetson AGX.
While the CPU could certainly be newer the 32GB of shared memory, NVMe storage, and CUDA GPU support is just killer for my use cases.
Docker images and LXC containers for Home Assistant, my broadcastify scanner feed, my ADSB feed, my Plex server, my FreeSWITCH instance, and my various NLP/TTS/STT applications (with CUDA) make the Jetson AGX perfect for me.
Where Alpine comes into play is the amazing package selection for aarch64. My life would be much more difficult without Alpine on this hardware.
With the push towards aarch64 everywhere this will get easier over time but for now Alpine is saving me a lot of headaches!
We used to use Alpine Linux but the build times are a real drag. We are a Python shop, so we just switched to python-slim for most of our builds. This writeup explains in detail the problem: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
On amd64 desktop/server I still default to Ubuntu. For Docker my image base is usually Alpine.
But what’s really amazing is that recently I’ve transferred more and more functionality to my Nvidia Jetson AGX.
While the CPU could certainly be newer the 32GB of shared memory, NVMe storage, and CUDA GPU support is just killer for my use cases.
Docker images and LXC containers for Home Assistant, my broadcastify scanner feed, my ADSB feed, my Plex server, my FreeSWITCH instance, and my various NLP/TTS/STT applications (with CUDA) make the Jetson AGX perfect for me.
Where Alpine comes into play is the amazing package selection for aarch64. My life would be much more difficult without Alpine on this hardware.
With the push towards aarch64 everywhere this will get easier over time but for now Alpine is saving me a lot of headaches!