Archival repost — originally published on my old blog on June 21, 2015, back when Alpine was still a dark-horse pick rather than the default. Already in English, lightly cleaned up for dev. to (fixed a few typos).
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/hamdi_laadhari/put-your-docker-images-on-a-diet-with-alpine-linux-2015-jg)