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- Alpine uses musl libc, but for native image compatibility, we require glibc. To address this, we'll need to install gcompat.
- Alpine uses an older shell instead of bash, necessitating the installation of bash to run our helper scripts.
- Alpine employs the apk package manager, which, being relatively less popular, may pose challenges in the future. There's a potential risk that certain libraries we might need could lack support from apk.
Alpine vs Ubuntu Docker Base Image
The next best option I explored is the Ubuntu Docker image( https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu/tags) which is a more complete image.
- Size: It has a size of 70MB compared to the 15MB of the Alpine image (post-installation of glibc and bash), resulting in a difference of 55MB.
- Performance: I executed produce/consume performance scripts on the Kafka native Docker image using both Alpine and Ubuntu, and the results indicated comparable performance between the two.
Image Naming
Image naming should:
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