Explore Alpine as an alternative to Debian based Linux distributions

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Reduce image sizes and improve startup times by switching your base image to Alpine Linux. Alpine Linux is smaller than the alternatives, but has a smaller ecosystem. Comparisons show Alpine images are consistently smaller than Debian slim equivalent.

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