Why not? Let&#x27;s run the numbers.<p>* <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.alpinelinux.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Special:ActiveUsers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.alpinelinux.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Special:ActiveUsers</a><p>14 active users. That is not a lot. In fact, that is tiny. Maybe their redmine
has more? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.alpinelinux.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;alpine" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.alpinelinux.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;alpine</a> says 16 users in the
&#x27;developers&#x27; group.<p>But maybe they&#x27;re very pro-active on the mailinglist? Let&#x27;s check their
security announce list:<p>* <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.alpinelinux.org&#x2F;alpine-security&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.alpinelinux.org&#x2F;alpine-security&#x2F;</a><p>1 message. From 2009. Hmm. Well, their alpine-devel list then? 5110 messages in
10 years. 9 Messages per week. By comparison: the debian developers mailinglist
had 492 messages in November 2015 alone.<p>So even though Alpine Linux looks nice and lean, it is maintained by a very
small group of developers.<p>Now. If building your own container were very very hard, I&#x27;d sure understand
grasping for something like Alpine.<p>But here&#x27;s how you build an Ubuntu Trusty container:<p><pre><code>     debootstrap --variant=&quot;minbase&quot; --include=&quot;systemd-sysv&quot; trusty ${TMPDIR} ${UBUNTU_MIRROR}
     chroot ${TMPDIR} 
     dpkg-divert --local --rename --add &#x2F;sbin&#x2F;initctl
     ln -sf &#x2F;bin&#x2F;true &#x2F;sbin&#x2F;initctl
     dpkg-divert --local --rename &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;ischroot 
     ln -sf &#x2F;bin&#x2F;true &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;ischroot
</code></pre>
Just tarball it and throw it in &#x27;docker import&#x27;. Your done.<p>Need to add or remove software? Use Ansible to configure specific containers
with specific confgurations.<p>Need security-updates? chroot into the folder, apt-get update; apt-get upgrade.<p>Throw the new tarball into docker import again. You use long-term supported
methods and systems. There are tens of thousands of packages. Bazillions of
PPAs to use.<p>Edit: typo in codesnippet