Provide an official alpine image with globalization support

[DanielLaberge]

Please consider providing an official alpine that supports globalization.

Currently, we are either forced to:

• Use a custom alpine base image that adds globalization data as documented by dotnet here. Or:
• Use a debian image (bookworm-slim), which is ~74MB bigger than the custom alpine image with globalization data.

Otherwise, please explain the rationale for not providing this image.

Thank you.

[baronfel]

This repo doesn't control which images and variants are created for .NET. For that you should check out the dotnet/dotnet-docker repo. They have an announcement describing the different image variants for .NET 8 here that you can dig into for rationale.

I think you can get what you're looking for using the extra variant of the 8.0 alpine image, which can be done easily using this tooling by specifying <ContainerFamily>alpine-extra</ContainerFamily>.

[DanielLaberge]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

For the record, there is currently no "-extra" variant of the aspnet image, which is what I need. I have opened an issue in the appropriate repo: https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/issues/4955