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Docker compose wraps the app and db in a few lines of config: https://github.com/docker/awesome-compose/tree/master/offici... the extra config is for networking / db connections - you don't get those on Android because you don't run network services on it.
K8s can do the same thing, but has more options.
> You are going to eventually run into the same issue most people trying to use Alpine Linux just because of simplicity and being lightweight run: musl is not a completely ABI-compatible seamless replacement to glibc and might cause issue with statically linked binaries, and other annoying issues you won't foresee.
Well, if all you need is the server to run Docker/Podman, SSH and some other limited amount of packages, it shouldn't be too bad. Of course, there are also horror stories of Alpine resulting in way worse performance in select use cases: https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/509 and there's the fact that Alpine might be popular inside of containers, but way less so outside.
Also, because of the short EOL cycle, I personally ditched Debian on servers (and Alpine in containers) myself for Ubuntu everywhere: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/using-ubuntu-as-the-base-fo... A bit of a polarizing move (though RPM distros aren't much better at the moment), but it seems to have worked out for me in the end.
Doesn't mean that someone can't try, though, maybe their use case is suitable for Alpine.