alpine

docker20260127muslsupported until 2028-06-0111926M pulls

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox, designed for small and efficient containers.

operating-systems

Usage

Recommended variant

docker pull alpine:20260127

use 20260127 unless you have a specific reason not to

Variants

Available tags

alpine:full

Lifecycle

Support & EOL

latest20260127

pull size4MB compressed

OS EOLsupported until 2028-06-01

Known issues

Gotchas

avoid :latest in production — pulls breaking major version changes

uses musl libc — can break native extensions compiled for glibc

package versions may lag behind other distributions

Resources