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Alpine
Alpine
A minimal Docker image based on Alpine Linux with a complete package index and only 5 MB in size!
Archamd64
OSAlpine
CategoryOPERATING SYSTEMS
Tagproduction
Description
Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution built around musl libc and BusyBox. The image is only 5 MB in size and has access to a package repository that is much more complete than other BusyBox-based images. This makes Alpine Linux a great image base for utilities and even production applications. Read more about Alpine Linux here and you can see how their mantra fits in right at home with Docker images.
How to use this image ?
To pull the latest image
docker pull cleanstart.triamsecurity.com/alpine:latest
To pull any other version of the image
docker pull cleanstart.triamsecurity.com/alpine:[tag]
Usage
The only mandatory environment variable needed by the Alpine Image is not specified.
You can run the Alpine Image by running the following command:
docker run -d --name my-alpine-container -t cleanstart.triamsecurity.com/alpine:latest
This command will run the image in detached mode.
To access the running Alpine container:
docker exec -it my-alpine-container sh