Comment Comment by nickjj Why isn't he using the Alpine based Redis image when comparing final image sizes?It's unfair to say the official Redis image is 177mb because the Alpine version is available on the Docker Hub[1] and it's only 15.95mb.Alpine is pretty awesome if your main goal is to shrink images without any effort[2].[1] https://hub.docker.com/_/redis/[2] http://nickjanetakis.com/blog/alpine-based-docker-images-mak... parent nickjj 10 years ago
It's unfair to say the official Redis image is 177mb because the Alpine version is available on the Docker Hub[1] and it's only 15.95mb.
Alpine is pretty awesome if your main goal is to shrink images without any effort[2].
[1] https://hub.docker.com/_/redis/
[2] http://nickjanetakis.com/blog/alpine-based-docker-images-mak...