Alpine Linux 3.18.0 Released

Alpine Linux 3.18.0 Released(alpinelinux.org)

24 points by _ikke_ 3 years ago | 7 comments

musl libc 1.2.4 – now with TCP fallback in DNS resolver

The no-tcp fallback discussion has come up a few times on HN. Maybe that will unbreak some Kube clusters or at least remove the need for some workarounds.

I just upgraded one of my nameservers and the kernel is 6.1.27-2 was 5.15.109-0 previously. Upgrade appears to have gone fine. A few sysctl's deprecated. Nice and boring, the way I like it.

LinuxBender 3 years ago | |

Bare metal upgrades have been going fine as well.

jmakov 3 years ago |

Can somebody elaborate why would you want to use Alpine instead Clear Linux?

vivegi 3 years ago | |

Small optimized container image sizes is one of the reasons.

  alpine image is ~5 MB. [1]
  clearlinux image is ~80 MB. [2]

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/_/clearlinux/tags

squarefoot 3 years ago | |

Alpine also runs on ARM platforms, and by using musl instead of glibc it consumes a lot less resources, at the price of some (thankfully rare) incompatibilities here and there. For reference: https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...

KronisLV 3 years ago | |

Link for anyone interested in Clear Linux: https://clearlinux.org/

Had heard of Alpine and used it plenty for containers, yet hadn't heard of Clear Linux before. Nowadays I just use Ubuntu for my container images (due to the same environment as my dev machine which simplifies things for me), but there's also a lot of benefit and elegance in more lightweight alternatives.

pella 3 years ago | |

Docker images ...

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Adocker-library+alpine&type...