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Alpine is pretty nice though using it in containers you are not getting the best part of it: the hardened kernel. I'd say Alpine is a better fit for the host OS where you have a few moving parts.

It will be great for compiled language base images, but even there it might be tricky if you rely on 3rd party packages. Libc compatibility issues are also real. It's great that they are slowing addressing them though.



Wouldn't CoreOS be the better host though, if just hosting containers is the only goal? Or are there things Alpine would do better?


I didn't mean to say Alpine is the best host OS option. It's just it's a better idea compared to Ubuntu :-)


CentOS will be better option for host. Why you need CoreOS?


Beg to differ. You should read the docs for CoreOS. One OS is made to host containers, the other is more general.


I see same things but under different branding. It's all.


Anonymous coward: explain your downvote, please.





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