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I am just looking at docker images in https://hub.docker.com/_/node/

For every version, the images are categorized into Alpine, Jessie, Stretch, Buster etc. What's their meaning?

Bill DeRose
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In docker-Context here are the important informations you need.

  1. Alpine
    Url: https://alpinelinux.org/
    Imagename: alpine
    Shorty: Its very small.
    Packagemanger: apk
    Shells: /bin/sh
    Size: Few MBs - current tag needs 2.7MB

  2. Jessie aka Debian 8
    Url: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianJessie
    Imagename: debian:jessie
    Shorty: No LTS anymore
    Packagemanager: apt
    Shells: /bin/bash
    Size: ~50mb

  3. Stretch aka Debian 9
    Url: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch
    Imagename: debian:stretch
    Shorty: LTS is running out
    Packagemanager: apt
    Shells: /bin/bash and many more
    Size: ~40mb

  4. Buster aka Debian 10
    Url: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster
    Imagename: debian:buster
    Shorty: All what you need, but newer
    Packagemanager: apt
    Shells: /bin/bash and many more
    Size: ~50mb

  5. Bullseye aka Debian 11
    Url: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBullseye
    Imagename: debian:bullseye
    Shorty: All what you need, but newer
    Shells: /bin/bash and many more
    Size: ~50mb

  6. Bookworm aka Debian 12
    Url: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBookworm
    Imagename: debian:bookworm
    Shorty: Newest debian
    Shells: /bin/bash and many more
    Size: ~50mb

  7. Ubuntu based on debian
    Url: https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu
    Imagename: ubuntu
    Shorty: All what you need
    Packagemanager: apt
    Shells: /bin/bash and more
    Size: ~25mb

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    You can find a list of Debian releases and their end of life (EOL) dates here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases – Bill DeRose Feb 06 '20 at 06:28
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Those are the names of the OS in the container in which Node will be running.

Alpine is for Alpine Linux, Jessie and Stretch are versions of Debian. If you scroll down on the documentation link you provided, you'll find a section describing what Alpine is and why you might want to use it.

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  • Thanks. Totally missed the "How to use this image" section. – Muthukumar Aug 29 '18 at 18:24
  • So on what OS does a container using the node:latest image run on ? – gordon_freeman Dec 31 '20 at 13:10
  • It's currently coming from Debian Stretch, but could be updated in the future: https://github.com/docker-library/repo-info/blob/master/repos/node/local/latest.md. I got to that link from the Node image page on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/_/node – mkasberg Dec 31 '20 at 21:53
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    If you're using `node:latest`, the assumption is that you want the latest version of Node and don't care what OS you're running on. If you really care about the OS, it would be preferable to use an image with the OS in the image tag. – mkasberg Dec 31 '20 at 21:55