We are actively working on migrating away from Ubuntu minimized images towards Alpine, because Ubuntu makes significant changes every major release that break basic expectations on the system around packaging, networking, service management and other aspects that affect lower-level system software.
If your app is run inside of an app server proxied through a web server, you probably don't care that much about the underlying OS changes. If your app is system-level, underlying OS changes are a significant maintenance cost that greatly increases friction and reduces feature velocity.
Alpine's environmental stability and tiny security footprint make it ideal for system software that is being containerized.
If your app is run inside of an app server proxied through a web server, you probably don't care that much about the underlying OS changes. If your app is system-level, underlying OS changes are a significant maintenance cost that greatly increases friction and reduces feature velocity.
Alpine's environmental stability and tiny security footprint make it ideal for system software that is being containerized.