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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, so there is something even more barebones than Alpine

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, there's also the scratch image, which is entirely empty... So if your app is just a single statically linked binary, your entire container contents can be a single binary.

The busybox image is also more barebones than alpine, but still has a couple of basic tools.