The alpine image we were previously using ran into some problems. It looks like
the alpine team changed package names around for some of their python 2 packages.
Additionally, their use of musl instead of glibc means that no PyPI wheels work on alpine.
Also, the python:2 image includes more baked-in python dependencies. This results in a
faster build with dependencies that shift less.
The alpine image we were previously using ran into some problems. It looks like the alpine team changed package names around for some of their python 2 packages. Additionally, their use of musl instead of glibc means that no PyPI wheels work on alpine. Also, the python:2 image includes more baked-in python dependencies. This results in a faster build with dependencies that shift less.