15 engineers on Hacker News describe using Alpine Linux first-hand: 5 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I've been using AI with alpine and had tremendous results. fixing legacy bugs, reducing resources, improving performance.”
endorse · production · tonymet · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I find broken shit in Alpine constantly but when I do it's a whole lot easier to figure out what broke”
mixed · personal · eep_social · 2024-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All because someone used a not-so-standard library.”
regret · production · jauntywundrkind · 2023-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“been using Alpine containers because they are so small but wouldn't mind other options.”
endorse · personal · NelsonMinar · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been running Alpine Linux in production for 4 years now.”
endorse · production · 4 yr · blueflow · 2022-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Solution is based on bhyve and vm-bhyve, and great Alpine Linux distribution.”
endorse · personal · mtasic · 2020-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Eventually we switched to Debian-based images because of intermittent DNS-related woes that plagued our alpine containers.”
regret · production · clarkdave · 2020-02-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a base image for containers I prefer Alpine for its slenderness and security”
endorse · production · simon_acca · 2018-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One of the headaches we run into comes from using Alpine as a baseimage. They are compiled against muslc instead of libc.”
regret · production · hosh · 2017-04-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using Alpine, i3, and mostly w3m”
neutral · personal · schemescape · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the base images are typically debian-slim, though some are alpine or even scratch.”
neutral · production · rubyist5eva · 2022-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using alpine instead of debian-slim”
neutral · production · halostatue · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now, we use Linux alpine docker containers, use postgre instead Sql Server”
neutral · production · majkinetor · 2019-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have also used extensibly: archlinux, gentoo, openbsd, freebsd, alpine and slackware-current.”
neutral · personal · pecg · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using chronyd in Alpine linux to good effect so far”
neutral · personal · arca_vorago · 2014-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?