Is it just me, or does this still seem about an order of magnitude larger than it reasonably needs to be?
Given the size of Alpine itself (less than 10 MB, last time I checked), is it node that pulls in so much extra stuff, or something else?
Given the size of Alpine itself (less than 10 MB, last time I checked), is it node that pulls in so much extra stuff, or something else?
Taking a peak at the official dockerfile for alpine node (https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/blob/28ad5e0e5d0e80df4...), they're also pulling in the following packages
&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps-full \
binutils-gold \
g++ \
gcc \
gnupg \
libgcc \
linux-headers \
make \
python3
They also appear to be cleaning them up, so I'm not actually sure where all that extra weight is coming from.
Node itself is fairly trimmed down in the packages for alpine (40MB installed), but they're not using that package, they're pulling in their own version from their download sources - so it's possible they're including a lot of extra junk there. They also add yarn which is another 10mb.
But in general - I agree, there's about 100mb of weight I can't actually explain in that image from a very quick look.