Comment Comment by pella > But the size difference between alpine and debian:-slim (for example) is on the order of < 20mb. compressed size(amd64): 17.59MB vs. 45.35MB ( > 2.5x ) uncompressed size(amd64):52.00MB vs. 130.00MB ( > 2.5x ) $ docker images python:3.12.1* REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE python 3.12.1-alpine3.19 0108959914c2 2 weeks ago 51.7MB python 3.12.1-slim-bookworm 7c5c05471c3a 2 weeks ago 130MB** parent pella 2 years ago