Alpine Linux

Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution based on musl and BusyBox, designed to be small and resource efficiency, as of 2020 is around 6 MB. Alpine Linux uses apk package manager and OpenRC init system (not systemd).

Operations

1. Upgrade Alpine: apk upgrade --available
2. docker run alpine

Activities

1. Run Alpine Linux in a docker container: docker run -it alpine /bin/sh (Bash is not supported in Alpine)
2. Connect to an existing pod (myalpine) in K8s: kubectl exec -it myalpine -- /bin/sh
3. kubectl run -it alpine --image=alpine -- sh

Related terms

• ash shell
• RancherOS
• Fedora CoreOS
• osinfo-query os
• AWS Bottlerocket
• docker pull alpine
• alpine/helm
• Busybox
• Distroless
• /etc/sysctl.conf
• FROM node:lts-alpine

See also

• apk, [ add | list | upgrade | info | search ] apk --help
• Alpine Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS), apk, Debian slim, Bottlerocket, Busybox
• BusyBox, Almquist shell (ash), Alpine, Distroless

http://containertutorials.com/alpine/get_started.html