aarch64/alpine repository overview

⁠DEPRECATED

The aarch64⁠ organization is deprecated in favor of the more-specific arm64v8⁠ organization, as per https://github.com/docker-library/official-images#architectures-other-than-amd64⁠. Please adjust your usages accordingly.

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

** THESE IMAGES ARE VERY EXPERIMENTAL; THEY ARE PROVIDED ON A BEST-EFFORT BASIS WHILE docker-library/official-images#2289⁠ IS STILL IN-PROGRESS (which is the first step towards proper multiarch images) **

** PLEASE DO NOT USE THEM FOR IMPORTANT THINGS **

This image is built from the source of the official image of the same name (alpine)⁠. Please see that image's description for links to the relevant Dockerfiles.

If you are curious about specifically how this image differs, see the Jenkins Groovy DSL scripts in the tianon/jenkins-groovy GitHub repository⁠, which are responsible for creating the Jenkins jobs which build them.

⁠Quick reference

• Where to get help:
  the Docker Community Forums⁠, the Docker Community Slack⁠, or Stack Overflow⁠

• Where to file issues:
  https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/issues⁠

• Maintained by:
  Glider Labs⁠ (an Alpine community contributor)

• Published image artifact details:
  repo-info repo's repos/alpine/ directory⁠ (history⁠)
  (image metadata, transfer size, etc)

• Image updates:
  official-images PRs with label library/alpine⁠
  official-images repo's library/alpine file⁠ (history⁠)

• Source of this description:
  docs repo's alpine/ directory⁠ (history⁠)

• Supported Docker versions:
  the latest release⁠ (down to 1.6 on a best-effort basis)

⁠What is Alpine Linux?

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

⁠Usage

Use like you would any other base image:

FROM alpine:3.3
RUN apk add --no-cache mysql-client
ENTRYPOINT ["mysql"]

This example has a virtual image size of only 16 MB. Compare that to our good friend Ubuntu:

FROM ubuntu:14.04
RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y mysql-client \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
ENTRYPOINT ["mysql"]

This yields us a virtual image size of about 232 MB image.

⁠Documentation

This image is well documented. Check out the documentation at Viewdocs⁠.