BusyBox is available in numerous flavors that use completely different implementations of libc: musl-libc (as utilized in Alpine), standard glibc, and one other “tiny” variant of libc known as uclibc. This manner, you should use BusyBox with different software program which may even be linked in opposition to completely different libc implementations.
Debian Slim (35.9 MB)
For those who use Debian as the bottom to your purposes, the widely-used Debian Linux distribution has a minimal variant known as Debian Slim. Most of what’s excluded from Slim is documentation, help for languages aside from English, and a few application-specific elements (e.g., documentation for KDE). These omissions alone shave down the dimensions of the Debian picture by round 40%.
One other Debian-based choice is Bitnami’s minideb. The photographs for this distribution are constructed nightly and comprise the newest safety updates. Like Slim, it omits documentation, together with init-system-related elements, however features a customized install_packages script to permit working apt non-interactively through the container construct course of. The minideb picture is used as the muse for a lot of of Bitnami’s personal language runtime containers (PHP, Ruby, Node) and infrastructure purposes (Redis, MariaDB).
