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is ubuntu worth the 10x container size? #2

Open warrenson opened 1 year ago

warrenson commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/powerPlant/README/blob/11d20bb0550d43b44d22258aab7bf91699ceee09/new.sh#L17

For example, a python 3 container built on ubuntu jammy is about ~550MB, and the equivalent container built on alpine (latest stable) is ~57MB.

Should we use Alpine, or something else small, by default?

eburgueno commented 11 months ago

I favour ease of use. Alpine is based on musl so you might run into issues compiling things that expect glibc instead.

You could do pure python ones to get smaller images, but then you need to "maintain" two different bootstraps.