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Alpine Linux with Docker
Cloud ready and Lightweight Alpine Linux distribution with built-in support for Docker.
Reviews (16)
Mahinsha N.
Best Linux image
Reviewed on Oct 19, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing specific. I never came across any negatives for the Alpine image.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alpine Linux image helped me to build docker images and run containerized applications for my clients. It was very easy to configure and run the build.
Ashutosh T.
Alpine Linux
Reviewed on Aug 10, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
While using Alpine Linux in the Dockerfile, the image that was built was very lightweight due to it taking very little storage, making it easily portable. We were using Alpine Linux in almost all the Dockerfiles.
What do you dislike about the product?
While using Alpine Linux in the Dockerfile, some of the packages were missing when we were working with a Node.js application, and sometimes we faced issues while using sudo inside the container.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before, we used to use Ubuntu in the Dockerfile, which resulted in larger image sizes. Then we switched to Alpine Linux, and the image size was reduced significantly. We started building smaller-sized images.
Gianluigi M.
Most light but simple Linux distro for container
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alpine Linux resolves our problem of having a complete, flexible but first of all secure and light unix distro to deploy our containerized microservices over Kubernetes.
Samar S.
Small and powerful Linux distro that does exactly what's required to do.
Reviewed on Jul 27, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Alpine Linux as the base layer for all my Python microservices and data science-related apps and services. It's easy to set up and helps in getting started quickly.
Ger
Is this legal?
Reviewed on Jul 05, 2022
Review from a verified AWS customer
The link to the developer site (https://aws.okindev.com/) seems broken, and this does not seem affiliated with the official Alpine Linux distribution.
This AMI uses the official logo though, which is very confusing.
Apart from this - is there any advantage to use this image instead of the official AMI provided by Alpine Linux?
Animesh R.
My experience with Alpine Linux with Docker
Reviewed on Jun 17, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
ease of download and given the capability to use for multiple different projects as well. mostly use of dev env for web-application.
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing so far, everything works for me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Alpine Linux with Docker helps to set up multiple working environments
Nitin S.
Alpine Linux with Docker
Reviewed on Jun 09, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating containerised solutions for applications which are specific to the Alpine Linux and related tech stack.
Karan R.
Lightweight and stable
Reviewed on Apr 30, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
We sometimes have to install additional packages needed to run our development environment. This is usually straightforward and is documented well on the internet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a full-stack web application developer, I use Alpine Linux with my Docker setup to run a local copy of our app which is used to collaborate, create and test new features.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just go for it. It's the best out there, when it comes to a lightweight Linux image.
Information Technology and Services
Alpine docker
Reviewed on Apr 21, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Alpine Linux is having good feature for sizing and require minimal size to store and installation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Repository while installation having few minor issues needs to fix
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Performance impact faced due to the hardware and cpu consum help in alpine to solve at good extent
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best in use and use friendly with GuI interface available.
Rahul A.
Linux docker
Reviewed on Apr 21, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Alpine linux size is the most amazing feature with storage and easy to install.
What do you dislike about the product?
Repository features which require filesystem to be edited for the issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's great in ease of use for the performance and I/O failures which overcomes the slowness issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's better with size and easy to use as considering other operation system available.