revarcline / docker-python-3-alpine-glibc

Carefully crafted Alpine Docker image with glibc (~58MB)

Alpine Python and GNU C library (glibc) Docker image

This image is based on a combination of the official python Alpine Linux image, which is only a 45MB image, and frolvlad/alpine-glibc. glibc is included to enable proprietary projects compiled against glibc (e.g. OracleJDK, Anaconda) rather than alpine's default musl.

It will come in around 58MB, which is somthing of a happy medium between vanilla alpine and the slightly larger debian-based python images.

This image includes some quirks to make glibc work side by side with musl libc (default in Alpine Linux). glibc packages for Alpine Linux are prepared by Sasha Gerrand and the releases are published in sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc github repo.

If you need to update your libc library cache, use /usr/glibc-compat/sbin/ldconfig instead of the usual /sbin/ldconfig. You can also use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as on standard libc-based distributions.

Usage Example

This image is intended to be a base image for your projects, so you may use it like this:

[FROM](FROM) revarcline/python-3-alpine-glibc:latest

COPY ./my_app /usr/local/bin/my_app

$ docker build -t my_app .