With its container-friendly design, the Alpine Docker Official Image (DOI) helps developers build and deploy lightweight, cross-platform applications.It’s based on Alpine Linux which debuted in 2005, making it one of today’s newest major Linux distros.
While some developers express security concerns when using relatively newer images, Alpine has earned a solid reputation.Developers favor Alpine for the following reasons:
It has a smaller footprint, and therefore a smaller attack surface (even evading 2014’s ShellShock Bash exploit!). It takes up less disk