Alpine Linux with Docker Reviews & Product Details

It is one of the best available Linux base layer images that I have been using for the past few months. It is effortless to configure and build docker images using the same. It is very lightweight and we can configure the same for any container build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing specific. I never came across any negatives for the Alpine image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alpine comes with only essential packages to run the Linux distro. The included package manager, APK, works as the same as APT. All commons packages, libraries and tools for typical containerized software services are available today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes some packages or libraries require some more work to be configured and running correctly. But nowadays it is really simple to find out solutions over Stack Overflow or other sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While using alpine Linux in the dockerfile the image that was built was of very lightweight due to it taking very less storage & it became very easily portable. We were using alpine Linux in almost all. the dockerfiles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While using alpine Linux in dockerfile some of the packages were missing while we were working with nodejs application & sometimes we faced issues while using sudo inside the container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's lightweight. When dockerizing your applications, the image size can easily go over 1GB with most of the space being used by the base layer, but not with Alpine.

Alpine is lightweight since it does not come already equipped with a lot of default Linux packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's not much to dislike about Alpine. If it were possible to have a desktop environment it would a good thing, but this is where Alpine Linux misses.

Community support is very limited and troubleshooting is a pain sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A lightweight Docker image means that my development image is not bloated with unnecessary software. As a frontend developer, I find the startup times to be the fastest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We sometimes have to install additional packages needed to run our development environment. This is usually straightforward and is documented well on the internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is the best option to use for OS layer for users that are currently using Docker. Alpine Linux will reduce the image size. Alpine Linux is good in containers and very secure. You can also load package history from a previous state in the case you need to revert to a working version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes Alpine Linux has bugs, and sometimes the build times are delayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This weakening of security is not necessary to do with Alpine 3.4.x and Docker 1.12 and the easy documentation provided on their site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very often we came across the message "WARNING: No {swap,memory} limit support". Support is still limited and it gets difficult to troubleshoot any ongoing issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ease of downlaod and given the capability to use for multiple different projects as well. mostly use of dev env for web-application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing so far, everything works for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alpine linux size is the most amazing feature with storage and easy to install . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Repository features which require filesystem to be edited for the issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As compared to all other container images, the size of the alpine image is significantly less that means the alpine docker image is light in weight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

some of the Linux tools/applications not supported Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.