Ian Lewis • 5/31/2017

Creating Smaller Docker Images Part #3: Alpine Linux

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This third article in a series on reducing Docker image size focuses on Alpine Linux. It compares the massive size of a Debian-based Python image (~614MB) to a minimal Alpine base (~4MB) and an Alpine-based Python image (~72MB). It provides a practical example of building an image with Alpine using the `apk` package manager.

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