gnu-on-alpine
A lightweight Docker container for shell scripting with GNU tools on Alpine Linux (by cicirello)
alpine-plus-plus
A lightweight Docker container for shell scripting with git and GNU tools on Alpine Linux (by cicirello)
| gnu-on-alpine | alpine-plus-plus | |
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| 4 | 4 | |
| 8 | 8 | |
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| 5.3 | 5.9 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Dockerfile | Dockerfile | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gnu-on-alpine
Posts with mentions or reviews of gnu-on-alpine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-08-14.
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gnu-on-alpine 3.22.1 and alpine-plus-plus 3.22.1 Released
You can pull gnu-on-alpine from either Docker Hub or the GitHub Container Registry with the following commands:
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gnu-on-alpine 3.18.4 and alpine-plus-plus 3.18.4 Released
gnu-on-alpine - A lightweight docker image for shell scripting with GNU tools
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gnu-on-alpine and alpine-plus-plus: Two Lightweight Containers for Implementing GitHub Container Actions with Shell Scripting
The motivation of the gnu-on-alpine and alpine-plus-plus Docker containers is the implementation of GitHub Container Actions via shell scripting. They are built upon alpine to keep the image size small for fast loading within GitHub Actions, and both are preinstalled with bash, coreutils, findutils, and gawk; and alpine-plus-plus is additionally preinstalled with git.
alpine-plus-plus
Posts with mentions or reviews of alpine-plus-plus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-08-14.
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gnu-on-alpine 3.22.1 and alpine-plus-plus 3.22.1 Released
You can pull alpine-plus-plus from either Docker Hub or the GitHub Container Registry with the following commands:
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gnu-on-alpine 3.18.4 and alpine-plus-plus 3.18.4 Released
alpine-plus-plus - A lightweight docker image for shell scripting with git and GNU tools
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gnu-on-alpine and alpine-plus-plus: Two Lightweight Containers for Implementing GitHub Container Actions with Shell Scripting
The motivation of the gnu-on-alpine and alpine-plus-plus Docker containers is the implementation of GitHub Container Actions via shell scripting. They are built upon alpine to keep the image size small for fast loading within GitHub Actions, and both are preinstalled with bash, coreutils, findutils, and gawk; and alpine-plus-plus is additionally preinstalled with git.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gnu-on-alpine and alpine-plus-plus you can also consider the following projects:
javadoc-cleanup - Create mobile-friendly documentation sites by post-processing javadocs in GitHub Actions
docker-php-nginx - Docker image with PHP-FPM 8.5 & Nginx 1.28 on Alpine Linux
docker-shellcheck - 🐳 Dockerized ShellCheck: A static analysis tool for shell scripts
alpine-php-fpm - Lightweight & optimized Multi-Arch Docker Images (x86_64/arm/arm64) for PHP-FPM (PHP 8.1, 8.2, 8.3) with essential extensions on top of latest Alpine Linux. :elephant: