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jzelinskie on June 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to compile C apps with musl and Clang

The Alpine Linux docker image is only a couple megabytes[0]. There are quite a few people (including myself) using it as a light-weight OS for their containers.

[0]: https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine

nickpsecurity on June 28, 2015 | [–]

Now that is more like it!

sams99 on June 28, 2015 | [–]

for example, my redis container (samsaffron/redis) is 20mb, the official(tm) redis container is based on ubuntu is 100mb

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