Alpine Linux 3.18.0 Released

https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.18.0-released.html

by _ikke_ • 3 years ago

24 7 3 years ago

musl libc 1.2.4 – now with TCP fallback in DNS resolver

The no-tcp fallback discussion has come up a few times on HN. Maybe that will unbreak some Kube clusters or at least remove the need for some workarounds.

I just upgraded one of my nameservers and the kernel is 6.1.27-2 was 5.15.109-0 previously. Upgrade appears to have gone fine. A few sysctl's deprecated. Nice and boring, the way I like it.

LinuxBender2• 3 years ago

Bare metal upgrades have been going fine as well.

jmakov• 3 years ago

Can somebody elaborate why would you want to use Alpine instead Clear Linux?

squarefoot• 3 years ago

Alpine also runs on ARM platforms, and by using musl instead of glibc it consumes a lot less resources, at the price of some (thankfully rare) incompatibilities here and there. For reference: https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...

KronisLV• 3 years ago

Link for anyone interested in Clear Linux: https://clearlinux.org/

Had heard of Alpine and used it plenty for containers, yet hadn't heard of Clear Linux before. Nowadays I just use Ubuntu for my container images (due to the same environment as my dev machine which simplifies things for me), but there's also a lot of benefit and elegance in more lightweight alternatives.

pella• 3 years ago

Docker images ...

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Adocker-library+alpine&type...

vivegi• 3 years ago

Small optimized container image sizes is one of the reasons.

  alpine image is ~5 MB. [1]
  clearlinux image is ~80 MB. [2]

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine

[2] https://hub.docker.com/_/clearlinux/tags

Alpine Linux 3.18.0 Released

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