Alpine Linux is a lightweight, secure linux distribution. It's very popular for container-based application deployments.

$ apk add [package]

Useful Packages #

I'll possibly update this page if it's useful. Ive been hopping into our dev cluster to test connectivity recently. You can install packages to containers using the apk command. You would normally do so during the creation of the container image.

telnet #

$ apk add busybox-extras

Run tools using the busybox-extras command, e.g.

$ busybox-extras telnet localhost 8080

curl #

$ apk add curl

host #

$ apk add bind-tools

mysql #

$ apk add mysql-client

I think this one actually installs mariadb-client