colstrom/alpine repository overview

⁠alpine

Alpine Linux⁠ is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

⁠Description

All tags for this image are Edge⁠ builds of Alpine Linux. They differ only in which repositories are included. If you need a stable version, alpine⁠ provides tags for those. As the intent of this image is to be a minimal base for single-service containers, tracking edge is not expected to cause issues (packages are still stable releases, only Alpine itself is a development build).

⁠Upcoming Changes

Starting in 2.1.0, package is included in this image, and apk-install is deprecated. apk-install will be removed in 3.x.

⁠Additions

owner⁠ is included with this image. The ~800 bytes it adds to the image is a fair trade for the debugging time saved when you need it. (deprecated) apk-install⁠ simplifies the "Fetch Cache", "Install Package", "Empty Cache" flow to a single step: apk-install package. package⁠ replaces apk-install, serving the same purpose, but providing a generic interface across package management tools.

⁠Tags

• latest tracks the edge tag from upstream⁠

This includes the main, testing, and community repositories, but all packages outside main are masked. To import them, just use apk add package@tag.

⁠License

MIT⁠

⁠Contributors

• Chris Olstrom⁠ | e-mail⁠ | Twitter⁠