[varikin]

> It’s sometimes said this Alpine stuff is a premature optimization, but in most cases it’s not even an optimization.

Not always. If you have thousands of containers running, the network cost* for changing the base image is massive because each instance needs possibly all new layers, not just the last layer or 2. Having a smaller base image is very practical at this point.

* And for network cost, there is both the literal cost with egress from dockerhub, or another registry, but also the load on your network infra.