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Mihir Rane

This article was really helpful. Thanks! Also, what exactly is 'scratch'? I always use alpine as base.

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Andrei Dascalu

You can use FROM scratch instead of alpine, it’s basically the Linux kernel rather than a distro with package manager

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Mihir Rane

Oh now I understand, Thanks.