Alpine Linux

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Security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox

What is Alpine Linux?

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
Alpine Linux is a tool in the Operating Systems category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

133 companies use Alpine Linux in their tech stacks, including CRED, CircleCI, and deleokorea.

CRED

CircleCI

deleokorea

Onefootball

Foretag

Modanisa.com

überdosis

WISESIGHT

Appwrite

Walls.io

simplesurance

Kaidee

Why developers like Alpine Linux

Secure
Good in containers
Fast
Supports armhf, aarch64, x86, ppc64, armv7,s390x
Does not run glibc binaries
Minimal dependencies
Widely used in docker containers everywhere
Musl based
Choice of init system