Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution based on musl and BusyBox, designed to be small and resource efficiency, as of 2020 is around 6 MB. Alpine Linux uses apk package manager and OpenRC init system (not systemd).

Operations

1. Upgrade Alpine: apk upgrade --available

Activities

1. Run Alpine Linux in a docker container: docker run -it alpine /bin/sh (Bash is not supported in Alpine)

Related terms

• ash shell
• RancherOS
• Fedora CoreOS
• osinfo-query os
• AWS Bottlerocket
• docker pull alpine
• alpine/helm
• Busybox
• Distroless

See also

• apk, [ add | list | upgrade | info | search ] apk --help
• Alpine Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS), apk, addgroup, Debian slim, Bottlerocket, Busybox, Flatcar, Wolfi, alpine:latest
• BusyBox, Almquist shell (ash), Alpine, Distroless, Wolfi OS

http://containertutorials.com/alpine/get_started.html