in this case, it has little to do with storage cost and more to do with network transfer. when you&#x27;re deploying an Ubuntu container to several nodes, your startup time is probably &lt; 1sec for the app, and a lot more pulling down the image (most of which is totally wasted time)<p>the thing is, what do you gain out of using Ubuntu over alpine? chances are that its very little. the gains of using alpine are a more efficient, faster deployment system