perl

dockerglibcsupported until 2028-07-03253M pulls

Official Docker image for the Perl programming language runtime.

languages-and-frameworks

Usage

Recommended variant

docker pull perl:5.43.9-slim

slim = Debian-based, glibc, smaller than full — good default for production

Variants

Available tags

perl:slimglibc

Lifecycle

Support & EOL

pull size62MB compressed

OS EOLsupported until 2028-07-03

Known issues

Gotchas

slim variant removes many common tools and libraries, may require manual installation of dependencies

avoid :latest in production — pulls breaking major version changes

alpine variant uses musl libc, can break native extensions compiled for glibc

Resources