If you like Alphine and it works for you great, but it&#x27;s not always an option. If you use Ubuntu and you still want small containers there are a number of options. DockerSlim (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dockersl.im" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dockersl.im</a>) is one of these options. A sample node app container build from Ubuntu is around 14MB.