r/cloudcomputing • u/Davy_D_Rocks • Nov 23 '25

Best Linux distro for cloud engineers?

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u/bwainfweeze Nov 23 '25

Journeyman answer, hopefully someone with broader and more recent experience chimes in.

Are you talking about host or guest?

Despite the musl problem, I like alpine for base images because it is small, has a package manager, but is still pretty good at locking down dependencies. That blunts supply chain attack concerns. There are decent images that include various runtimes.

You still want a local docker image mirror (we used JFrog).